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To: Slagle who wrote (15966)	3/25/2007 6:13:30 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218641

>>Seagrave describes how your father and brother escape across Manchuria with Borodin in a Buick car<< As I understand it, a famous Seattle lefty named Anna Louise Strong joined that trip. One day she got separated from the group and temporarily lost in the Gobi Desert. Does Seagrave provide any details on this incident? I'm curious because I suspect she's a distant relative of mine. Anna Louise Strong en.wikipedia.org snowshoe@sixdegressofseparation.com

To: Slagle who wrote (15966)	3/25/2007 9:20:34 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218641

did not know <<Vincent Sheean>> episode; thank you much for the pointer/reference. now must get book. eugene was not foreign minister, but was active right up until he died in 1944, even though he was under house arrest by japanese in shanghai from 1939-40 onward he was able to receive visitors from all over and did he refused to turn tail and run when shanghai was conquered by the japanese

To: Slagle who wrote (15966)	3/26/2007 2:53:36 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218641

Marco Polo's Mixer Time Magazine -- Monday, Jan. 10, 1972 time.com In the international community of Hong Kong, few invitations are more coveted than the simple postcard reminder mailed once a month to 200 or so carefully chosen residents of the British Colony. The card requests their presence at cocktails, a European-style formal dinner, and a screening of Chinese films on the last Thursday of each month in a private dining room of the Mandarin Hotel. The recipients—journalists, businessmen, trade representatives and consular officials—seldom decline this summons. All of them are members of the Marco Polo Club, the world's only social organization in which Westerners can meet regularly and informally with officials of the People's Republic of China. The club, which was founded in 1956, has no dues, and guests pay for their own dinners and drinks. The main attraction for the Westerners, Japanese and others who attend the meetings is the opportunity to sound out, over whisky and soda, representatives from such organizations as the New China News Agency and the Bank of China on the latest developments in mainland China. Usually, about 30 Communist officials attend the dinners. The man who keeps both the conversation and the guests circulating affably is the club's founder, a witty, white-haired retired lawyer named Percy Chen, 70. Born in 1902 in Trinidad into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, Chen is an atypical apologist for the People's Republic. He studied at University College in London and did his legal apprenticeship at the Middle Temple, one of London's prestigious Inns of Court. Even today, his accent is impeccably British, and he speaks very little Chinese. Making Friends. A visit to China in 1926 as a tourist extended into a permanent stay when Chen realized that he "had come home." He was given a post in the Nationalist foreign ministry, of which his father, Eugene Chen, was the head. He became increasingly disenchanted with the inability of the Nationalists to cope with China's "15th century conditions" and gave his support to the Communists. In 1947, he established a private law practice in Hong Kong. "I am an Overseas Chinese," says Chen. "For 45 years I have tried to work for the good of my motherland. The old warlord China was a burden on the world. Now China can help others. I think it is ready to play a positive and constructive role." Because of the coldness in Sino-American relations, Chen until this year refused to let U.S. citizens attend the Marco Polo dinners. The rules have now been changed so that American residents of Hong Kong who have visited the mainland can join the club. The list of eligibles is certain to expand soon. In Chen's cheery words, "As more and more friends are made, the club will continue to grow." .