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...fortnight ago, China's National Assembly overwhelmingly elected Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek President of China. Then they turned to the election of a Vice President. At first, everything was smooth as cream. At the Dragon Gate restaurant, delegates sipped tea with Candidate Sun Fo, whose father was Sun Yatsen, hero of the revolution, and who was second only to the Gimo in Kuomintang prestige. Four other aspirants were equally polite and formal...
...disrupt the peacetime economy, a Military Establishment which would lay the foundation for a strong, permanent defense force, but was capable of meeting an emergency the day after tomorrow. That was the task. Unless Congress did it, the Military Establishment, which should look like St. George ready for the dragon, would look more like Alice's White Knight, hung with carrots, fire tongs, bellows, beehives and mousetraps...
...doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...
Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington...