The Reluctant Leader

T. V. Soong got an A.B. from Harvard in 1915, returned to China to become one of the top political leaders and one of the wealthiest men of his country. He has been Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, chairman of the board of the Bank of China. During the crucial years 1945-47, he was Premier.

Soong is now living comfortably in the U.S., where much of his money is. He has failed to obey the summons of his brother-in-law, Chiang Kaishek, to go back to Formosa and take his share of responsibility for the defense of the last citadel of the Chinese Nationalist government.

Last week from Formosa came an announcement of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang: T. V. Soong was no longer a member of the committee. In Manhattan, Soong made no comment.

The Chinese Nationalist government this week announced the execution in Formosa of three men and a woman: Lieut. General Wu Shih, former Vice Minister of Defense; Lieut. General Chen Pao-chong, former conscription boss; Colonel Nyi Shih and Miss Tsu Kan-tse. Charged with having plotted to deliver Formosa to the Communists, they had been under arrest since last March when a secret radio transmitter was found in the Defense Ministry.

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