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Show China's Quads, Born on Armistice, Named for Allies China's quadruplets pictured at left now have two names apiece. At birth in a Canton refugee camp on Armistice day, 1939, they were named Kwok-keung, Kwok-ying, Kwok-yuen, and Kwok-hing, which in Cantonese dialect means Chiu of a Strong Country, Chiu of a Heroic Country, Chiu of a Self-Ruling Country, Coun-try, and Chiu of a Prosperous Country. Coun-try. Their new names, taken from the roll of . the United Nations, are United States Chiu, Great Britain Chiu, Soviet Chiu, and China Chiu. The quadruplets were brought into the world by a Chinese woman doc- : tor on the staff of the Hackett Medical Med-ical college in Canton. The babies' ; mother, one of a mass of Chinese refugees who had swarmed into Canton, Can-ton, was in her thirties. After the quadruplets' birth, she was able to nurse only two of them and a Chinese midwife nursed the other two. |