This has established him definitely as the head of the regime and un~ doubtedly when the Peiping and Nanking governments are amalgamat~ ed Mr. Wang will head it unless some purely figurehead personality can be prized out of retirement. Even then he would undoubtedly be the power behind the president.
Mr, Wang's emergence to such prominence practically assures Peiping being chosen as the. seat of the amalgamated government, the new Japanese-sponsored capital to which Will be sent the ambassador Japan is expected to accredit to the new com: bined regime proposed by the Jar anese army. Mr. Wang can hardly be expected to move to Nanking to as sume office there and in any: event the name Nanking is not one the' [Japanese are fond of using. The fesses of the Japanese army in the first weeks of occupation of Nanking take a good deal of forgetting.
Mr. Wang, when interviewed by the, writer and other correspondents on hhis- return, was studiously unintormotive, He stressed the big changes in Tokyo after an absence of 31 years, his first and chief impression being that the Japanese race has increased in height and girth, to judge by the play of his hands when he said the Japanese were now bigger people. He added that he saw members of the Reformed Government in Shanghai and that these conversations resulted {in plans for amalgamation of the two regimes being advanced several steps:
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