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1	1941	Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in China. Jeffrey Meyers : The uncomfortable, exhausting and often boring trip to China was a disappointing experience for Ernest Hemingway. He had no real interest in the country and went only to accompany Martha Gellhorn. He had a good time in Hong Kong, did his duty at the tedious official functions and tried to ignore the horrors that made Martha writhe with discomfort. He never actually saw the war – or anything else of extraordinary interest – during this quiescent period in China. He did not feel he knew enough to write fiction about China. After his experience in Spain and China, he believed that the lies, propaganda and censorship necessary in wartime made it almost impossible to be an honorable correspondent. Peter Moreira : Martha Gellhorn interpreted the situation in China as fitting cleanly into the same pattern as the other conflicts she had covered. The evil aggressors were the Japanese and the noble defenders were the Chinese led by Chiang Kai-shek. She wanted to cover this war so her crusading journalism could shed light on the plight of the beleaguered Chinese and bolster American support for what was then known as Free China. Both Hemingway and Gellhorn realized that China under Chiang Kai-shek was not a democracy.	Document: Moreira, Peter. Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn. (Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2006). [Permission for quotations from Moreire, Peter. Hemingway in China by Samuel R. Dorrance, Ed. Potomac Books]. S. 9, 121. (Hem6, Publication) Person: Gallhorn, Martha Person: Hemingway, Ernest
2	1941	Gellhorn, Martha. Travels with myself and another [ID D30445]. "He [Ernest Hemingway] learned to speak coolie English, a language related to West African pidgin and Caribbean English, and was seen laughing with waiters and rickshaw coolies and street vendors, all parties evidently enjoying each other. He love Chinese food and would return from feasts with his Chinese crook-type friends searing they'd been served by geisha girls, and describe the menu until I begged him to stop, due to queasiness. He was ready to try anything, including snake wine, the snakes presumably coiled and pickled in the bottom of the jug… He felt that the Hongkong Chinese, given to gambling, rice wine and fire-crackers, had great savoir vivre."	Person: Gallhorn, Martha Person: Hemingway, Ernest
3	1941	Ernest Hemingway, acting as correspondent for the newspaper PM [Post Meridian, ed. by Ralph Ingersoll] and Martha Gellhorn, writing for Collier's magazine. Hemingway's mission was to study the strategic, economic and politic situation, see how Chiang Kai-shek's war against Japan was progressing and decide how the war affected American commercial and military interests in the Orient.	Person: Gallhorn, Martha Person: Hemingway, Ernest
4	1941.03	Hahn, Emily. [Besuch bei Ernest Hemingway in Hong Kong]. [Interview with Arthur Gomes ; Oct. 4 (1995).] "When the Hemingways were in Hong Kong I was very pregnant indeed with Charles' [Boxer] daughter [Carola Militia Boxer]. We were not married, as he had a wife sitting out the war in Singapore… I was pretty much of a scandal in the community, walking down Des Voeux Road, and Ernest was sitting in front of the Hong Kong Hotel, now deceased, drinking a Bloody Mary (which he introduced to the colony). He asked me to join him. They had been at may place the evening before. I joined him, and in the middle of a sentence he suddenly said, "What's going to happen to Charles about this baby ? Won't they kick him out of the army ? " "No", I said. "They daren't, because he's the only man they have who can speak Japanese". He looked doubtful. "Tell you what", he said. "You can tell 'em it's mine"."	Person: Hahn, Emily Person: Hemingway, Ernest

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1		Zentralbibliothek Zürich	Organisation / ZB