Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, a power in China, died on October 23rd, aged 105
THE SCENE is Cairo, November 1943, where Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and China's Chiang Kai-shek are discussing how next to conduct the war against Germany and Japan. They break off to sit for an official photograph. As the photographer focuses his apparatus a woman joins the group. The men acknowledge her courteously. It would be unthinkable to ask her to stand aside.
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