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Bitter enemies, former Premier Sun Fo and former President Chiang Kai-shek strove like two men in a swiftly turning whirlpool to grasp what straws of Power they could...
...China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Finance Minister since the Revolution who has been able to get enough money together to run a central government. Smiling Chiang was still the most powerful military leader in China. The temporary government under pudgy Cantonese "Premier" Dr. Sun Fo could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming...
...fun?for the whole Japanese people?to read in the papers that nine potent Chinese Generals in various parts of China had denounced the brand new Chinese Government at Nanking formed fortnight ago by Premier Sun Fo, blaming it for failure to prevent the Japanese capture of Chinchow and threatening the very life of the new Government, which might fall at any time...
...Government going. In Shanghai last week Dr. Soong cantered on horseback every morning, a pleasure he has not had time to take for months. Because China simply had to have a Government, the Nanking political muddle unsnarled itself faster than might otherwise have been the case. Cantonese Dr. Sun Fo (son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic") was chosen President of the Executive Yuan, equivalent to Premier. At the same time the Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party tinkered with China's organic law in such a way as to reduce the powers...
...Passed 350 fo 50 and sent to the House of Lords the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Nov. 30) by which all the Dominions achieve "full national status to stand beside the United Kingdom as equal part ners in the dignity and responsibility of the British Commonwealth...