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...Home Returning Squad,' then 'The Volunteer Young Men's Squad.'. . . These squads were ordered dispersed because of their evil deeds [but] the squad that controls my village was renamed 'The Self-Protecting Squad.' . . . The ignorant farmers just called it the Huo Hui-Fire Society...
...himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
Last week publishers in Italy and South America were planning books about Neutra. And an issue of the French magazine L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, devoted almost entirely to him, had reached...
...afternoon session, Christmas Day, brought a simple, stirring final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold...
Clearly, it was not. The new Constitution, said Dr. Wang Chung-hui, one of the drafters, was not considered satisfactory by any one party or group, but this fact proved that it was acceptable to all. It was, he said, a "unique democratic Constitution of the most modern type...