In the folder of King Mar's letters was a 1946 pamphlet for the China Motor Corporation (CMC) which was located in Linden, New Jersey. Don't know how much interest King had in the company.
The pamphlet is mostly in Chinese with the English text at the "back" of the booklet. Chinese books open with the spine on the right, so to English readers the first page they saw was China Motor Corporation - Its Purpose and Function.
CMC was the first Chinese machinery manufacturing and sales organization in the U.S. One purpose was to adapt American war surplus equipment for use in China, and another was to serve as an overseas base for the development of Chinese industries. China was an ally during the Second World War in the fight against Japan. In my parents house hung a portrait of Chang Kai-shek, the leader of the pro-US Nationalist China was symbolic of their support for a non Communist China. When Mao Tse-tung won the battle for control of China, U.S. relations with China changed.
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