WAR IN CHINA: Mr. Lin Learns About Life

A "visitor in Chungking for the last bomb-cracked month has been Lin Yu-tang, whose interpretations of China to the West (My Country and My People, The Importance of Living) once offended high Chinese officials because they were so honest. Slight, middle-aged but boyish, quick to smile, master of four languages and scores of moods, he is China's philosophic Ambassador at Large.

One day last week Lin Yutang, tired from two nights in & out of dugouts, heard an alarm and again made his way to one of the vast caverns cut into the...

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