Word: soong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent 87 minutes talking with China's Premier Dr. T. V. Soong. And then Jack Benny came in and cracked that if he had not known the President was so busy he would have brought his violin and played a tune. Reported pleased Comedian Benny: the President laughed -"he's a swell...
...almost an hour President Truman listened hard to the arguments for extension of Lend-Lease. There were reasons for an immediate decision: 1) China had made a formal request for extension, and its Premier Dr. T. V. Soong was waiting on the doorstep (see FOREIGN NEWS); 2) Charles de Gaulle, reaching the door step this week, would doubtless bring up the question; 3) Britain, normally the best U.S. customer, could not buy heavily in the U.S. market without help in putting its own economy in order; 4) Russia, potentially a good customer, had already asked for $6 billion of postwar...
China's Prime Minister T. V. Soong last week flew to Washington from Moscow, met his daughter, Laurette, and got down to China's business with U.S. officialdom...
...important chunk of that business was Mr. Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...
...Chinese Embassy, another batch of luggage had just been moved in. A U.S. Army plane had brought Chungking's Prime Minister T. V. Soong and his new Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh to Moscow for a second series of talks with Molotov and Stalin. Better than anyone else, the Chinese visitors and their Russian hosts understood the full importance and impact of the Soviet declaration...