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...Donald." This was not to say that Kidnappee Chiang, Kidnapper Chang, Financier Soong and Acting-Premier Kung were engaged in emulating the example set fortnight ago by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin when he eased King Edward from the Throne while loudly protesting that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could...
...patience of Uncle Donald was sorely tried. He was said in some dispatches last week to have been for years mainly an adviser of Dictator Chiang but the facts are that his career has been as adviser to the Young Marshal, plus merely friendly relations with T. V. Soong who is the Dictator's brother-in-law, up to three years ago. He then attached himself to Chiang, while continuing to advise Chang. It was possible that at Sian wise Uncle Donald was trying to be as impartial and simply pro-Chinese as he knew how-but there...
...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...followed by the arrival in Nanking of his most trusted adjutant with peremptory orders to Dr. Kung to halt his soldiers. Since Dr. Kung had just told everybody they would not be halted, this placed the Nanking Government in a dilemma calling for the talents of Brother T. V. Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family tie binds them, and it always will, but sometimes the bonds chafe...
Bomb Tokyo? Lead China? Tokyo's queasiest fear this week was lest Mr. T. V. Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that...