JAPAN: Puppet Show

Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust of the Chinese people and his own principles. So last week he actually got an ovation.

Not in his own capital, Nanking, where he rides between rows of guards who watch for assassins, but in Tokyo last week Wang rode beaming past 50,000 admiring people...

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