Madame Chiang reserved her most biting contempt for the “moral weaklings” who had abandoned the Nationalists. Britain, in particular, she said, had “bartered the soul of a nation for a few pieces of silver. I say ‘For shame!’ to Britain. One day these pieces of silver will bear interest in British blood, sweat, and tears on the battleground of freedom. For that which is morally wrong can never be politically right.”
