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T. \. Soong, Foreign Agent
For China in the U. S., Is
“Delivering” For His Land
(Dr. T. V. Soong, now Foreign Minister of China,
has been for two years a resident of Washington. He’s
the mystery man of the capital’s diplomatic circles.)
Washington—Checking off Prime Minister Winston
Churchill as merely a temporary visitor, the three
most important representatives of foreign countries in
Washington since we entered World War II are Eng
land's Lord Halifak, the USSR’s Maxim Litvinov and
Dr. T. V. Soong.
Until the other day, Lord Halifax and Litvinov were
ihe only representatives who have cabinet rating at
home. Then quite unexpectedly, Dr. Soong, for t*wo
years China’s financial and lend-lease expediter here,
was appointed Foreign Minister of China. That title
is probably the heading for a new chapter in one of
the most amazing political careers in the turbulent
history of modern China—-but a career which has been
practically unkonwn outside the small circle of Occi
dentals who know their Orient like a book.
Even as recently as a few weeks ago, I have heard
government officials who should know say: “Dr. Soong?
Oh, yes, he's a member of that Soong family in China.”
A member of “that Soong family” he certainly is. but
here is as good a place as any to put in that if it hadn’t
been for the financial wizardy of T. V. Soong, brother
in-lav Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s great revolu
tion might have died a-borning.
To understand the new foreign minister of China,
me must have some picture of his family and his back
ground. Sixty-odd years ago, a penniless young Chin
ese imigrant was selling hammocks to help work his
way through Trinity College (now Duke University)
nd worshipping ardently in the Southern Methodist
Church where shortly before he had been christened
Charles Jones Soong (Charles Jones was the name of
his sponsor). A few years later, Charles Soonfg wah
graduated from Vanderbilt and went home to Shang
hai to become a missionary and a publisher of Bibles.
It was there he married and it was in his house that
“the Soong dynasty” and the great Chinese revolution
which was to elevate its first great leader. Dr. Sun
Yateen, to near sainthood, was born.
Every one of “Charlie" Jones Soong's six children
got their higher education in the United States. The
two youngest sons are now prominent in banking
circles, one in San Francisco, one in Chungking. The
three daughters married the three greatest leaders of
modern China. Chingling became the wife and inspire
tion of the late Dr. Sun. Mei-ling married Generalis
simo Chiang and has fought shoulder to shoulder with
him. Ai-ling, the political genius of the family, mar
ried Dr. II. II. Kung, former YMCA secretary one of
the 75th descendants of Confucius, and the member
of a wealthy family that was operating chain stores in
China generations before Woolworth, et al, had hung1
up their signs. Dr. Kung now is China’s Minister of
Finance.
5 oung T. V., Harvard, 15, Columbia University post
graduate, and sometimes clerk in Wall Street,' first
leaped from obscurity when he was able to put mil
lions of dollars into the hands of Brother-in-law Chiang
for successful prosecution of the revolution. By 1932.
n0 ]iacj increased China s revenue tenfold and balanced
China s budget. Toppled from power a year later, in
one of the Soongs periodic family squabbles, he went
on to found and become chairman of the board of the i
now powerful Bank of China, to stabilize China’s cur
Jeny on a sound basis and to beome the money getter
tor the heroi defense against the Japanese invasion.
The Sonng family rows never last for long. Dr.
Soong’s elevation, at 47, to Foreign Minister, is proof
of that. — By Jack Stinnett.
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Pan-American Conference Is
Binder Hemisphere Solidarity
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Rio De Janeiro—The Pan American Conference here
is the first in history ever held during a major war.
It also is going to be the toughest and most important.
Pan American conferences were postponed during the
first World War, also during the depression. The dip
lomats figured that they might be embarrassed by too
many complicated problems. So they side-stepped
them, and continued their safe and insipid Pan Ameri
can policy of distributing steropticon slides of the
Andes to women's clubs and sending red and green
parrots to adorn the patio of the Pan American Union
in Washington. This was about as far as anyone want
i ed to go with Pan Americanism.
But this time, the Pan American nations have jump
ed into the middle of a question never faced before—
namely, is the Western Hemisphere going to stick to
gether as bonafide Good Neighbors against Hitler and
Hirohito? The man who will have a great deal of
responsibility for the success of this conference is Un
dersecretary Sumner Welles, a straight-talking hombre
who has lived with and bled for Latin Americans ever
since he was out of college. But even more responsible
is the man who is host at this conference, Foreign
Minister Aranha of Brazil, a mixture of toughness,
charm, and graciousness, who is as hard a rooter for
U. S. A. friendship as anyone below the Rio Grande.
They are being supported by a lot of other able for
eign ministers, ardently for action against the Axis'—
especially those representing the Caribbean countries
and Central America.
Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
But just the same, the job of getting a united front
even against the very real threat of invasion is not
going to be easy. Reason for this is that a new story
has developed in Latin America since December 7. It
is the story of fear. And it has increased since the fall
of Manila. The average Latin Aerimcan, like the Aver
age North American, always looked up on the Japs as
clever little people, but nevertheless little people. One
Argentine or one Brazilian, they figured, could lick six
Japs with both hands tied behind his back. So now it
is not easy to estimate the damage done to our prestige
by the pushing around we (and the British) have re
ceived in the Pacific since December 7.
i Higher-up Latin Americans understand our explan
ations; and the man in the street is sympathetic. Nev
ertheless no one can over-estimate the big boost it
| would give our prestige and Sumner Welles’ job in
Rio if the Navy could score a striking victory at this
moment in the Pacific. It must always be remember
ed that Latin Americans have a great respect for pow
er. Certain Latin American army leaders have been
called pro-Nazi, but actually they chiefly have the
military man’s admiration for a successful military
machine. And having looked upon us as a nation of
precision and power, our present inability soundly and
instantly to sap the Japs’ ears down, has made some
of them think twice regarding our ability to uphold
i the Monroe Doctrine.
Strong U. S. Support
In view of all this, it is a great tribute to Latin Am
erican friendship and show’s how deeply the Good
Neighbor policy has taken root, that the Rio Confer
, ence starts off with so many bonafide U. S. A. support
ers in the bleachers. First there is Brazil, largest na
tion in Latin America and 100 percent with the United
States. Second are the countries which border the
Panama Canal—Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Sal
| vador, Guatemala, Honduras — which already have
declared war on the Axis. Third are the countries
bordering the Caribbean—Cuba, Haiti andthe Domin
ican Republic, which also have declared war. Fourth,
Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico which are near the
Panama Canal and have severed diplomatic relations.
However, with the larger countries away from the
Panama Canal, it is a more cautious story. Chile, with
, nearly 3,000 miles of coastline along the Pacific, has
seen our own California coast approached by Japan
ese submarines, So naturally it wonders how the U. S.
Navy, too busy to -protect its own waters, could pos
sibly defend the distant coasts of Chile. Finally, there
is Argentina, which has seen the Graf Spee come into
the mouth of the River Platte, and Argentina is going
to be the really tough nut to crack at this conference.
However, Sumner Welles has been doing some care
. ful advance sounoing out of Pan-American foreign min
isters and the prospects for an ultimately successful
1 conference look good. One thing is especially import
ant. No longer do the Pan Americans require a un
animous vote to adopt a definite policy.
Like the old Democratic conventions, hamstrung
with the two-thirds rule, the Pan American confer
ences were frustrated in the past by requiring abso
lute unanimity. But this rule is now changed and all
the U. S. A. needs is a majority vote to adopt a strong
stand against the Axis.
What we will aim for is complete severing of diplo
matic relations with all Axis countries. And even if
Argentina dissents, this much, by majority vote, we
can get.
Jesse Jones
Washington—Secretary Jesse Jones, who holds more
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER T. V. SOONG 1’
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CH INESE CALLER S—At the White House door for war
conferences with the President are T. V. Soong (left), China's
foreign minister and brother-in-law of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek,
and Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador. Dr. Soong studied at Harvard.
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j jobs than any other official in J
I the entire history of the govern
! ment and who in some respects
I has more actual power than the
President of the United States,
has his ambitious eye fixed on
still another prize — the biggest
of them all.
The soft-voiced, smooth-as-oil
operating Texan wants to be
boss of the war production ma
chine. After months of backing
and filling, the President has fin_
ally decided to put his sprawling,
muddling and headless supplies,
organization under a single dir-;
ector. But the big problem is to
find the right man.
He should have drive, courage,
vision, great executive ability
and physical stamina.
Jones is 68 and has been un
der hot fire because of alleged
delays in getting underway vi
tally needed war plants and in
building up adequate reserve
stocks of rubber, tin and other
strategic materials whose short
age now is causing the drastic
rationing of civilian goods.
Recently, Jones was made a
member of SPAB, the top war
production agency, on the theory
that in this position it would be
easier to get his cooperation.
How that will work out remains
to be seen.
In the meanwhile he is quiet
ly pressing the idea that he
should be made No. 1 man of the
whole production organisation.
He has been frittering around
behind-the-scenes on Capitol Hill
talking to powerful old buddies
there and during Lord Beaver
Chester Brown arrived yester
day from Anchorage with Mr.
■ and Mrs. Cubboy and are expect
ed to return tomorrow. Mr. and
| Mrs. Cubibey are on a sight-see
ing trip. Mr. Cubbey is promin
ent Anchorage attorney.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that
William J. Maloney has'been ap
pointed by the Probate Court
I for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Second Division, Territory of
Alaska, Administrator of the Es
I taite of Julius Patterson, deceas
ed, and all persons having claims
against the said estate are re
quired to present the same with
in six months from the date of
this notice to the undersigned
administrator at Nome, Alaska.
Dated this 26t'h day of January,
1942.
William J. Maloney
Administrator of the
estate of Julius Patter - 1
son deceased.
Publish Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16.
brook’s stay in Washington he en
tertained and saw a lot of the
dynamic British Supply Minister.
Note: Besides being Secretary
of Commerce, and a member of
SPAB, Jones also is head of the
Federal Loan Agency, which in
eludes the RFC, the Metals Re_
serve Co., the Rubber Reserve
Co., the Defense Plant Corp., and
the Defense Supplies Corp., all
government concerns.
(The Washington Merry-Go
Round by Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen).