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Next morning, able O. K. Yui, Minister of Finance, thrice advanced to the platform and thrice retreated before a barrage of yowls and hisses from the floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust...
...Finance Minister went suave, competent 0. K. Yui, 48, banker, ex-mayor of Shanghai and formerly Chungking's Vice Minister of Finance. Minister O. K. Yui's real name is Yü Hung-chün. He adopted the O.K. as a tribute to American ways...
Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
...almost as much damage as shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented them to Shanghai's Chinese Mayor, toothy O. K. (for nothing) Yui and Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. For the protection of foreigners in the International Settlement, one demanded that all Japanese warships drop downstream below the China Merchants Lower Wharf, that Chinese soldiers retire simultaneously south of Yangtsepoo Creek. No hint of what action Britain and the U. S. might take...
...billboards on her funnels, plowed towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...