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Show MAS OF IIOVR Great Nation Envisioned by Chinese Chief v -IV J, ksaMaanueBaaBBBBMawakat.Utsl CHIANO KAI-SHEK Climb aided by Soviets (Copyright, INT, by International Newa) Some Chinese war lorda Chang Haueh-liang, for example Interspersed Inter-spersed their military campaigns with bouts of lower bracket golf and high stake contract bridge. Not so Chiang Kai-shek, however, how-ever, who started as a war lord and ended as supreme military leader, unifier and virtual dictator of modern China. Humorleea, deadly aerloua and fanatically convinced of China'a ultimate deatlny as a great world power, Chiang got hla boost to fame from the aovlets, Hia firat Important poet waa head of the I Whampoa Military academy at Canton, established on ths advirs of Marshal Borodin, agent of the soviet government, Chiang waa a protege of Dr. Sun Yat-aen, the founder of modern mod-ern China. Hia wife. Mel-Ling Soong. la a alater-in-law of the 1 great leader. Mme. Chiang, educated edu-cated at Wellesley, haa been termed "the moat beautiful woman In China -She acted today aa Interpreter for her husband when he received the foreign press at Nanking and criticised America's attitude toward the Sino-Japanese crisis, asking invocation of the nine-power nine-power pact agalnat Japan. When leisure allows. Chiang apenda hia time In hla tiny native village of Chlkow ' In Cheklabg province, where he established an agricultural school and preeerved the cottage of hia birth. In it la a room aet asida aa a shrine to hia mother, where an hour of meditation medi-tation marks each of hia daya in Chlkow. |