CHINA: Week of the Winds

From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled this account of T. V. Soong's final days as Premier:

T.V. beat his way up to Nanking from Shanghai in a howling gale of antipathy and criticism. Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien. Chubby, nearsighted, greying Fu, respected scholar and independent liberal, had expanded his polemics against T.V. into three newspaper articles.

"We must rip aside the iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed. He lashed at T.V. from every point of the pamphleteer's compass, denouncing not only his policies...

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