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To: TobagoJack who wrote (1484)	10/23/2005 10:31:07 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220573

TobagoJack Re: "Rittenberg" Was he there with your group at the Friendship Hotel? You really do have some interesting connections. I will read again "The Man Who Stayed Behind". I thought Rittenberg stated that at one point he was the only American in China. I know that earlier there had been a whole bunch of Americans with Mao's entourage and even earlier there were many more Americans with the Left Kuomintang. But by 1949 these people had left the country, I thought. I even have a couple of family China connections. My great aunt was a college classmate of one of the Soong sisters at Wesleyan College in Macon Georgia about 100 years ago. I don't know which of the sisters this was but then many years later this same lady visited our Gerogia hometown and even taught a Sunday School class at the Methodist Church, according to my mother. My aunt had a letter sent from China to my Great Aunt from her Chinese friend but somehow it has been lost. I remember seeing it when I was a kid as I was mostly interested in the Chinese postage stamps on the envelope. Then on the other side of the family a cousin was a pilot with Chenault's Flying Tigers. He had learned to fly a crop duster bi-plane in the early 1930's and somehow got connected with the Chenault operation. He sent home his pay to his father and the father bought up a vast amount of South Georgia farmland with the proceeds. They still own thousands of acres of farmland there, purchased during the depth of the depression with the pay from the Flying Tigers. Slagle