The American newspapers had surpassed themselves on the subject. According to them, Madame Sun was "China's Joan of Arc"; sha was the leader of a Chinese "woman's battalion", she was this, that and the other thing, depending on the fantasies of the headline writers. (...) I was face to face with a childlike figure of the most enchanting delicacy... She had a dignity so natural and certain that it deserved the name of staeliness. (...) was the fragile little widow of Sun Yat-sem."
****************************************** Vincent Sheean