The clapboard torture house, built by the Japs on the campus of Shanghai American School, was gone; its victims' screams no longer echoed down Avenue Pétain in the city's old French quarter. But over the Georgian school buildings flew a motheaten U.S. flag; S.A.S. was in session again.
Since 1912, when Protestant missionaries founded S.A.S., it has been the main home for China-based American schoolkids. There businessmen, missionaries, military and Government personnel knew that their boys & girls would somehow capture the sense of belonging to a U.S. that many of them might...
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