T. V. Returns

Said President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly.

To families of Kuomintang members who had died fighting Japanese and Communists, Soong donated his personal shares in three subsidiaries of the China Development & Finance Corp. (which operates railroads, coal mines, power plants). Commented the China Press: "Commendable magnanimity. ... A clarion call for action. . . . Those with wealth know what they should do."

On the heels of this news came the announcement that T.V., absent from public life since his resignation as Premier last spring (TIME, March 10), was back in harness. It was a time when China needed all the able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province--which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling.

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