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...Letters about this new edition have come in from such people as the Gissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Sun Yatsen, Finance Minister H. H. Kung, General Wu Techen...
...Soong found it difficult to maintain his prestige in China after the fall of Burma, when he could get almost no help from the U.S. Besides questions of public policy there were personal differences between T. V. and his two potent sisters, Mme. H. H. Kung and Mme. Chiang Kaishek: Mme. Kung in general represents conservative party politics and T. V. by comparison, the aggressive liberal forces. Mme. Chiang sided with the Kungs...
...commander admitted that a southern China port must be opened before the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek can be rearmed. But "Vinegar Joe," who probably knows China better than any brasshat in New Delhi, stoutly held that the "Hump" air route and the Ledo Road can fill the immediate gap in China's desperate needs, thus fit into the general Asia strategy...
...message which reached the U.S. last week, this independent member of the potent Soong family (sisters, Mmes. Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung; brothers, T. V. and T. L.) spoke in her sharpest vein. Said...
This statement amounted to a direct attack upon Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's policy toward China's Communist Army, a demand that the U.S. supply the Communists as well as Chungking's nationalist forces. In Chungking, no one but the Generalissimo's revered sister-in-law would have dared to raise China's most explosive problem in such a fashion, and even she must have had some pressing urge...