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...friends of China, T.V.'s appointment was the most heartening news since Chiang reorganized his Government (TIME, Nov. 27). They could hope that the change had not come too late...
There was little immediate hope to offer. In Chungking Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the new U.S. military chief, hurried his defense plans in daily conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. On one of China's gravest days in her seven years of war, General Wedemeyer was able to promise only a reasonable expectation-that the tide would be turned eventually by measures now in the making...
...Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the 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...
When he came out of Harvard and Columbia 29 years ago, T.V. went to work for a New York bank, soon shifted to business in Canton, swiftly swept to a high position in Chinese finance and government. In matters of currency, politics and foreign policy he became Chiang's troubleshooter. Last February, when he lost the presidency of the powerful Bank of China, his career suffered an eclipse. Now it shines promisingly again...
...China, from Asiatic prostitutes to European taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold my soul to any political party"), though she prefers the Chungking Government to the Communists and insists that stories of quarreling among the Soong sisters (Mesdames Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung and Sun Yatsen) are just leftist propaganda. But readers of China to Me will learn something about China's impact on Emily, almost everything about Emily's impact on China...