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Feng Shan Ho, 96 Nationalist China ambassador
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Feng Shan Ho, former Nationalist Chinese ambassador to Mexico and
the Middle East, died Sunday in his home in San Francisco. He was
96.
Mr. Ho was a diplomatic representative of the Nationalist Chinese
government for 40 years until his retirement in 1973.
He was the country's consul general in Vienna when Hitler invaded
Austria in 1938. Like some of his counterparts from other nations,
he helped many Jews escape the Nazis by issuing them visas to China.
In one particularly close...
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