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...appeared that no Great Power except Japan would challenge China's present determination to fix her tariffs without foreign interference. The new schedules provide an average tariff of 18%, as opposed to the former 5% plus 2.5% surtax. In defending this sharp increase Finance Minister T. V. Soong declared, probably quite truthfully, that the new Nationalist Government is "in imperative need of funds" to liquidate their Civil War Debt and carry out their impressive programs of peaceful development and reform...
Both Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Chiang are U. S. college graduates-the former from Leland Stanford, the latter from Wellesley. Mrs. Chiang is younger than Mrs. Hoover, and it is no disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father...
Finance Minister T. V. Soong...
...Soong, Harvard B. A. 1915, scion and spokesman of the most politically potent family in China, the House of Soong, is a brother-in-law of President Chiang...
...young stepmother was a Miss Soong (sister of T. V. Soong) and her two sisters are the wives of President Chiang and Minister H. H. Kung. Thus the new Chinese Cabinet is super-interlocked and cross-bound with family ties...