Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker was remarkable-the president of China's Legislative Yuan, Sun Fo, moderate, democratic-minded son of China's revolutionary leader, Sun Yatsen. The speech, delivered before the Kuomintang, was even more remarkable-an appeal to the Chungking Government to abandon its rightist position and pursue a more leftist policy...
...said so was none other than Founder Sun Yat-sen's stocky and genial son, Dr. Sun Fo, liberal president of China's Legislative Yuan. The forum for his denunciation of one-party misrule in China was none other than a meeting of that party-the all-powerful Kuomintang, which regards Dr. Sun Fo as its leading left-winger...
...from twelve to 25, thus gave the anti-Soong, pro-Kung group decisive voting power. T. V. was forced out; H. H. was handed a post which will enable him to complete his control over China's economic life. As Minister of Finance, vice president of the Executive Yuan, head of the Central Bank of China, and now board chairman of the Bank of China, he has political and economic power surpassed only by the Generalissimo...
...England to propagate the theme that the two nations should be "co-architects of peace." The missionaries: 52-year-old Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, onetime Minister of Education; editor-publisher Wang Yun-wu; Hu Lin, managing director of the powerful liberal newspaper Takungpao; educators Han Li-wu, Dr. Wen Yuan-ning. They met King George, Winston Churchill and other British bigwigs. Last week Dr. Wang Shih-chieh and Hu Lin arrived in the U.S., the others proceeded to Turkey. They were still making friends for China...
...Japan? China's faith in democracy was not for herself alone but for all Asia, including her mortal foe. On this same, solemn day, Sun Fo, son of the "sainted Sun Yatsen, now President of the Legislative Yuan, called for a republic in postwar Japan...