CHINA: New Premier

As his armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney...

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