Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...
...strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed currency. As Vice President of the Executive Yuan (Chiang is nominally President) he keeps his finger on all civil government...
...Wang Chung-hui, 61, are Chiang's philosophers. Tai, Kuomintang's leading theoretician and head of the Examination Yuan, has great influence on the Gissimo's thinking. Cautious, scholarly Wang is secretary general of the Supreme National Defense Council, which makes major decisions...
This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...
...China an American dollar goes a long, long way. If the Fund succeeds in making the yuan respectable, Manuel Fox expects a quick lift in China's trade. As late as last year, Japan-for a smuggler's price-sold China most of her imported cloth goods. Smuggling had been choked off to a trickle last week. But with money to give it strength, it would revive again...