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They do not know what help, if any, Russia will ever be willing to give against Japan, and they noted suspiciously Russian press attacks on Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist policies last week. They naturally cannot yet see eye to eye with Russia on postwar plans for Germany and Eastern Europe...
...press conference in London last week, reporters shot straightforward questions at T. V. Soong, China's sturdy Foreign Minister. Cosmopolite Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek, answered in plain English. Result: a broad-scale, official blueprint of China's postwar policies...
...standing committee of the Kuomintang was ready. Four and a half hours after Lin Sen's death, while a midsummer cloudburst spent its strength over Chungking, the committee chose a successor. Thus, finally, Chiang Kaishek, generalissimo of all the Chinese armies, master of a dozen other titles, assumed the title most in keeping with his activities: Acting President of the National Government...
Born. To T. L. Soong, 50, Chinese financier, younger brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi Soong, 24, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, representative in Washington, of China's Ministry of Finance: a daughter, their first child; in Washington. Weight...
...Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...