CHINA: Chiang, Kung & Chang

To squelch pesky Communists (see col. 3), Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek authorized last week a special subsidy of 600,000 Shanghai dollars ($200,000) per month to Chinese generals supplying troops to fight the Reds.

Next the lean, high-strung Generalissimo conferred with his moon-faced low-strung brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, easy-going Finance Minister. Shanghai buzzed with rumors that President Roosevelt's upping of the price of silver was about to force Chiang and Kung to take China's standard dollar off its white metal base.

"Such an act would not benefit either the Government...

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