Hard to Get

THE PHILIPPINES Hard to Get Long ago the Japanese dubbed William Henry Donald "the evil spirit of China." They offered angry and growing rewards for his capture, dead or alive. Once they almost got him—when Japanese Zeros attacked his transport plane over China—but his pilot escaped into a cloud bank. Last week it turned out that they had had him for more than three years. Still they could not find him.

Donald, trusted and powerful confidential adviser to Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kaishek, turned up last week, safe & sound,...