The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

ing to block the Japanese most complex characters ir
 When one of the Merry Co., Founders knew him in Canton in 1925, he was the outstanding gambler of South China. He garnbled on everything, from nah jong to the stock market, was re- puted to have cleaned up a mile lion in the latter.
 Today Chlang is devOut Christian, does not touch liquor or tobacco, is the leader of . campaign to teach the Chinese people the importance of Li, Nj, Lien, and Chin (polite manners, upright conduct, a sense of right and wrong, and apprecla- ton of moral values).
 American missionaries in China attribute the change to Chiangs conversion. This may be true. But probably his wife and mar velous sense of expediency also had something to do with it.
 General Chiang Is one of the most practical leaders in China, and the Chinese are practical people. His sense of consistency is like a rubber band.
 Anti Communist
 When the writer knew him in South China he was the disciple of the famous Russian Commun- ist leader, Borodin, and was wag. ing a Communist-insplred boy colt against Americans and Bri- tish. Chiang's troops were Rus- sian trained and well trained --even to the point of adopting Cossack uniforms.
 A few years later Chiang had
 thrown overheard his Russian advisers, raided the Russian consulate in Shanghai, and sev- cred relations with the Soviet. Today, however, he is getting encouragement, money and what supplies they can spare from that same Soviet.
 Today, also Chiang is getting unofficial encouragement and support from the same British and Americans whom he boy cotted in 1925.
 PrO-Japanese??
 Chiang has been almost equally inconsistent though not quite so much so = in his relations with the Japanese. When Nip pon's bluejackets landed in Shanghai in 1882. he was urged by everyone vocal in his coun- try to oppose them. Instead he kept his crack troops in Nanking and lifted not a finger to help General Tsai Ting-kai, whose Nineteenth Route Army put up one of the most heroic struggles in China's history.
 There have been rumors that Chiang Kai-shek was in the pay of the Japanese (many Chinese generals have been). This, how ever, probably. is unfair. Chiang Is a superb strategist, and his de-' lay in opposing the Japanese may have been due to his conviction that China was not sufficiently united to wage a major campaign. In this he was right.
 Madame Chiang
 There are only two things in which Chiang is consistent One is his astuteness as @ military leader, the other is his devotion to his wife.
 It is undoubtedly true that Madame ChianE is largely re- sponslble for her husbandn's success. A graduate of Wellesley In 1917, she comes from the famous "Soong Dynasty" her sister being Madame Sun Vat sen, her brother T. V. Soong, cx-finance minister, and another sister being Madame IT. II. Kung, wife of hte vice. -prcmeir.
 Madame Chiang is extefemly pretty. looks much younger than she is, and speaks excellent GiB ItoH' 11cE BlVcH LldNle iS "Mei-ling", meaning "beautiful". She is reputed to be, and probably is responsible for the sudden stiff fening of the backbone which her husband has shown toward the Japanese. Sol Bloom
 According to Sol Bloom, the dead will walk at the ceremonies celebrating the signing of the Constitution.
 After inviting long list of Washington notables to the affair, Sol issued @ press statement nam ing some of the ambassadors and ministers who had accepted.
 First on the list was ''Dr. Gull lermO Patterson, ambassador of Cuba"
 AMBASSADOR PATTERSON DIED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
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 Friends of William Castle, un- der secretary of state in the Hoov-