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Non-Statisticians Out. Because of Chang's role of Nanking moderate, the West read last week's news from China with satisfaction. The moderates, with the non-Kuomintang liberals, seemed to have a solid majority in the new State Council, and Chiang seemed to be on their side.
There were other auguries of more democracy; the Kuomintang announced dissolution of the party's own secret police—the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. (Some tough non-statisticians would be looking for new jobs.) This week Chiang Kai-shek agreed to delete a sentence in the new Organic Law which would have made him—as President—responsible only to the Kuomintang.
* Among those later named: former Premier T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, and the Mongolian Changchia Hutuketu—one of Lamaism's most important "Living Buddhas."
*One shipment, to the London Zoo last year, brought protests in the House of Lords. Borne out of the hills in a sedan chair, the panda was flown from Calcutta and thence to London—while 11,000 Britons waited for air transport.