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...Dispatched his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to Chungking, to help General Chiang Kai-shek bolster up Chinese currency...
...since the Civil War. As part of its long-range program he wants to make the "C" in Y. M. C. A. stand for more positive Christianity-as powerful a force for Christian leadership in the U. S. as it has been in China, where six members of one Chiang Kai-shek cabinet were former Y secretaries...
...Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics...
...Nanking Administration Building, where Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues used to hold state meetings, Puppet Wang sat alone at a long table. In walked General Abe, followed by 22 junior officers. Wang stood up. The General sat down. Wang sat down. The General indicated a document lying on the table. Wang signed it. General Abe signed it. Japan was at "peace" with China...
Generalissimo Chiang was now, according to the Japanese, "a regional outlaw." The Generalissimo thought Wang was the outlaw and put a price of $100,000 (Chinese) on his head. The Japanese had launched an offensive in Hupeh Province, carefully timed to coincide with their diplomatic offensive, and on the heels of the news of Nanking's recognition came reports that 5,000 Chinese had been slaughtered in what was called the "climax of clean-up operations.'' But the real significance of the treaty was found in a Tokyo admission that peace overtures to Chiang had proved fruitless...