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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother-in-law and former Finance Minister H. H. Kung, now in the U.S., of the vice presidency. (Another likely appointment: Dr. Wu Ting-chang, banker and Kweichow Governor, as Executive Yuan Secretary...
Among Cheng Hsueh Hsi's leaders were General Chang Chun, 60, governor of Szechwan, once known as the Gissimo's "one-man brain trust," and Dr. Wu Ting-chang, 56, banker, expublisher of the influential Ta Rung Pao, and governor of Kweichow. The appointment of T. V. Soong as President of the Executive Yuan or the inclusion of the Political Science Group in the Government would indicate how far Chiang intended to go in liberalizing his regime. Said Ta Kung Pao last week: "Now is the time" for more changes "to increase administrative efficiency...
...high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
Jungle Retrievers. Last week the enemy's armor-tipped columns speared into Kweilin through the tired 35 divisions of China's "Old Ironsides," General Chang Fa-kwei. They closed in on Liuchow, and the eighth of our air bases was missing. Simultaneously the enemy drove for Nanning. The gap between the Japs' north and south China forces already had been closed; now, if the drive for Nanning succeeded, the enemy would have through lines from Manchuria to Indo-China and thence to Singapore. The Fourteenth Air Force would be pushed back hundreds of miles from the South...
...Chang is visiting the United States at the invitation of the State Department and plans a lecture tour of mid-western colleges in the near future