Word: soong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic emergency," China's Premier T. V. Soong has reported, "is no less serious than the war itself." Most urgently, China needs food; in the drought-scorched central provinces, millions are facing famine. T. V. has said that imports of wheat, wheat flour and rice can solve a third of his nation's most pressing economic problems...
Credits & Surpluses. Premier Soong has held out no prospect save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...
...Mukden, they talked to one Soong Chu-sheng, tobacco factory manager. He told them how the Russians had looted last fall, had methodically stripped factories, had taken two-thirds of his cigaret output without pay. Shortly afterward, the talkative Soong was shot by a gunman. Several of the correspondents accused themselves in print of being "unwitting motivators" of his murder...
...Able, Western-minded T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan and the Generalissimo's brother...
...hoping that we could foster peace by redeploying the Government armies where they could command peace, we neglected to consider the consequences of failure. We pursued a policy of optimism based on Chungking's hope that the Stalin-Soong agreement would quiet China's Communists and that there would be no fighting. Now we are confronted with the ugly fact of civil...