Word: chiangs
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...managing editor (since 1917) of the China Weekly Review, editor of the daily China Press. A onetime instructor of journalism at the University of Missouri, Powell arrived in China during World War I, became a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He was one of the early backers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. A bitter enemy of Japanese aggression, Editor Powell steel-plated the doors of his printing plant, organized his own postal service to distribute the Review in Japanese territory, kept it going in spite of Japanese threats and interference...
...polite straddler. He was once a melancholy Marxist, and amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...
...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...
Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"-a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...have smuggled in two Japanese agents in the rumble seat of his car (which has no rumble seat). One of them was supposed to be no less a person than Prince Fumimaro Konoye. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr was later said to have peace terms for Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai's onetime Mayor Wu Te-chen...