Foreign News: Heroic Upset

Bitter enemies, former Premier Sun Fo and former President Chiang Kai-shek strove like two men in a swiftly turning whirlpool to grasp what straws of Power they could.

Mr. Sun, a Cantonese, had been worsted last month by the intrigues of General Chiang (TIME, Feb. i), but "China's Verdun" magically restored Cantonese Sun's prestige and the prestige of his "Cantonese Government." General Chiang, once a sensational leader of armies but now a practicer of nonresistance toward Japan, suddenly found himself forced to "approve" the resistance currently being...

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