Mourning Hugh Deane——A Good Old Friend

HUGH Deane, who diedin New York in June thisyear at the age of 84,was a friend of China forover 60 years - also the dura-tion of our personal amity.We first met in 1940, duringChina's war of resistance againstJapanese aggression. I was trav-eling to Chongqing, wartimeprovisional capital of her thencentral government, from HongKong, where I had been workingwith the China Defense Leagueunder Soong Ching Ling (Mme.Sun Yat-sen). During the jour-ney along what was at that timea fatiguing a…