JAPAN-CHINA: Another Kuo?

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A highly significant Chinese general today is moonfaced, bespectacled Yang Hu-cheng. As battle lines were drawn near Peiping last week and sporadic warfare crackled, General Yang was very far away, just landing in San Francisco with his tight-skinned little Chinese wife and their bright, button-eyed boy. Gesturing expansively with a pale Corona, General Yang welcomed alert California reporters. They wanted a good look at this celebrated Chinese commander who, when he found that another Chinese commander had kidnapped Chinese Dictator-&-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, acted without a moment's hesitation and hijacked...

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