CHINA: To Save the Hair & Skin

"If the skin is gone," said Chiang Kai-shek last week, quoting from an old proverb, "the hair will have nothing to grow on ... At a time like this, when rampant Communist rebels are confronting the nation with a serious crisis, the people, the government and the state will share the same consequences, be they good or bad."

Bold Effort. For eight days the Gimo had pondered, on the cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his...

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