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PERTH, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 5, 1946.
NO. 3,196.
SZVZNTYBECOND YEAR.
Chi*anq Kai*mShek—Chwa's Van oDestiny Intimate Pen Portrait of a Visit to the Generalissimo close-clipped and so nearly the colour of his skin that it was hardly notice•
Appreciation of the Work of the Catholic Missions .. .
able. But the point about the Generalissimo of-which Ibecame most conscious and which fascinated me throughout the interview was his eyes. The Gis. simo's eyes are full, live eyes, deep brown in colour and wide open, so that there seems to be no lids to veil them, so continually alert and impressionable are they. His eyes spoke an inner self at the pitch of attention, de. spite his quiet manner of sitting, with scarcely ever a gesture save to By CASPAR CAULFI'i3LD, in " The Sign." . touch once in a while a flat gold founStreet to the private drive that led to tain pen that just showed in his uniThe thing that impressed me most Ken Mcthe Generalissimo's home. form pocket. about a visit with China's Supreme Laughlin looked trim in his army uniThis full and smiling contemplation Commander was the contrast between form with the great insignia marked of his eyes was now turned upon Biswhat such a state call must have been "War Photographer" on his shoulders. hop O' Gara,and what he was saying. like in the days of the empire, at I was clutching a long white scroll Protocol required that the interview Pekini, and the simple modernity and which was a hand-drawn sketch of the be conducted in English, with General informality of such an audience now in "Gissimo" we intended to present for Wit serving as interpreter: though Bismuch more democratic Chungking. his autugraph. The Bishop and I had hop O'Gara and I understood clearly During the year and a half of my rehunted the city for a gift worthy of when the Generalissimo spoke in Chinsidence at the Jesuit language college presenting to China's President, but ese, and, I think, the President followin Peking, I often visited the ancient finding nothing distinctive enough to ed most of what Bishop O'Gara said home of China's emperors in the For. offer,we went without it. in English. bidden City nearby. Walking over With a dramatic stop the car pulled The first part of the conversation the white marble bridge- that curved up in front of the President's home, a was devoted to conveying to the Gisover the moat outside. I would pass grey stucco building not unlike the simo the good wishes of the Very Revthrough the tremendous archway in home a prosperous doctor might have erend Father Provincial of the Pasthe flaming red battlements, then along CHIANG KAI SEES ` in America. Instead of broad prosionists, in the name of the many hunthe half-mile promenade to the throne —"has led China through eight years menades we walked up a little hedgedred members of that Congregation in room.- recreating in my mind what the of war." lined path . The only ceremonial hall America. The Gissimo in turn thankpageantry of a visit to the Imperial we 'passed through was the tiny waited Bishop O'Gara for these expressions ' Majesty must have been like in the fleeting that, save for some Chinese ing room where we deposited our hats of good will, and wished the message old clays. landscapes hanging on the walls and a to be conveyed to America of his own and coats and the Bishop left his walkI could see the awestruck visitor few pieces of- unique Chinese-carved ing stick. At five-thirty on the dot high esteem for the Passionists and from one of China's humbler provinces vases and bric-a-brac on the fireplace their work in China. Bishop O'Gara being borne swiftly along the broad mantle and table tops, this was an likewise told the Generalissimo of the paths in a chair, passing up the great American room. interest he had found amongst all dragon-carved stairways through mrgThe Generalissimo came forward to classes of Catholics in President Chiang er and yet larger halls until, stepping greet Bishop O'Gara, shaking hands Kai-shek's own person, everywhere he out on the white terrace before the warmly and voicing in Chinese his dehad lectured in the United States and great golden-tiled audience ch.rmher, light at meeting a Catholic bishop. Canada. China's Leader acknowledg• he entered the presence of the Em• Kenneth McLaughln and I were preed this statement with the sparkle of peror sitting- on his peacock throne, sented to His Excellency by General his eyes, and the interjection, " How!" and at once became so weak in the legs Wu Teh-then. \fy impressions of meaning "Goodl" "Good!" His rethat he could only fall to his knees shaking hands with one of the world's plies were spoken quickly in few words, and how his head to the pavement. great leaders was a rather mixed-up 'hut each resonant phrase a perfect That was China in her ancient days, jumble of being conscious of his brown and courteous summing up of his _ before the new. serge uniform with its dully gleaming agreement. The visit which Bishop Cuthbert brass buttons, and a very kindly face BISHOP . PAUL YU-PIN At this point tea was brought by a O'Gara, O.Y., paid on April ninth to above, fringed with a closely cut crop a Chinese Bishop,attended the San servant boy in soldier's uniform, and the home of President Chiang Kai-shek of sandy hair that suggested a halo. Francisco Conference. placed before us in flowered Chinese in Chungking, at the Generalissimo's When the Generalissimo had seated cups with inverted saucers for covers. personal invitation—an occasion on Bishop O'Gara in what is the place of we could hear the Canadian AmbasWe did not sip this tea, for we knew which I was privileged to be present— honour in China, the armchair at his sador, His Excellency, Victor Odlum, well the canon of Chinese etiquette. was the perfect contrast to the scene left, and the rest of it ,;had taken our the visitor before us, making his good. When the Generalissimo reached for his i have described above. The invitaplaces, Ibegan to tabulate in my mind byes. tea cup the interview would he over. tion came by telephone and the visit the specific differences of the genus \[v first glimpse of the man who has got under way when General Wu TehKen McLaughlin meanwhile had "homo" that made up General Chiang led China through eight years of war chen, Secretary General of the Kuoeverything ready for his pictures. With K, i-shek. I noticed his folded hands was of a smartly dressed, middle-aged mintang Party, had seated Bishop I the eye of a good photographer he had soldier, standing at the far end of a and habit of rolling his thumbs. O'Gara, Ken McLaughlin, war photodecided what were the hest shots; now was interested' to observe the three long. Very modern, living room. We grapher, and myself in his very mod. he focussed his camera, paused long stars on a gold braid background on threaded our way past upholstered armern Buick. enough to catch evervbodv at rest, each side of his collar that constituted chairs and sofas over the soft carpet, We were whisked for a three-minute (Continued on Page 13.) his only insignia. His moustache was to reach him; and Icould not help re. drive along Chungking s upper Main
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