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...Peiping." Japan's Domei news agency added that "a stream of would-be-constructive Chinese statesmen is pouring into the offices of the Japanese Army's Special Service Mission" -i.e., offering themselves as prospective cabinet ministers should North China presently be organized by the Japanese into "another kuo...
...doing was waiting around to see whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...
...predecessors, according to the point of view. To say that the Prince is a "Liberal" means chiefly that he is not a frantic Japanese zealot who wants his country to bite off more of China than it can chew. To establish, as a sequel to "Manchukuo," another "kuo" of moderate size is Prince Konoye's idea of being Liberal...
...When Kuo Kuo joins him there she cannot help laughing, and that ends their brief stay. They take ship to China; she to aid her country against the Japanese invader, Juan for the ride. Once in Shanghai, Kuo Kuo gets more patriotic, less amorous, by the hour. During the bombardment of Chapei, Shanghai suburb, he rescues two beautiful sisters, Russians but Siamese twins. Since the other fair charmer is never away, he cannot be happy with either, but he has some close calls...
...While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...