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...Long? How Strong? The Chinese, sensing the potential effectiveness of this insidious campaign, urged loudly last week that the Allies act quickly against Japan. In Chungking the official newspaper Ta Kung Pao recalled that the great Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, advocated the crushing of the weakest adversary first. The paper asked: "How strong will Japan become in nine months, in one and a half years, or in two and a half years during which the United Nations are concentrating against Hitler...
Alling (literally: "Friendly Life") Soong had married Dr. H. H. Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in ways the most beautiful, but she was incredibly shy. Mei-Ling ("Beautiful Life") was certainly the personality of the three. At the end of their Hong Kong reunion, all three went to Chungking and much was made of the United Soong Front...
...three armies in Chiang's campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed currency. As Vice President of the Executive Yuan (Chiang is nominally President) he keeps his finger on all civil government...
...center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...China's shrewd, rotund Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Kung knows that his ability to control prices in vast, loosely organized China would have been doubtful in any case. The Government has set open market ceilings. In some cities they function fairly well, in others badly, depending on the local administration. In the countryside they have little or no effect. Black markets are everywhere...