What if Madame Soong had married Wendell Wilkie?

Wikipedia said:
Relations with Madame Chiang Kai-shek

According to Gardner Cowles, publisher of the Des Moines Register, Willkie's visit to the Republic of China led to a bizarre consequence: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the hugely ambitious wife of China's ruler, developed the idea that she could seduce and marry Willkie, use China's wealth to help him become president in 1944, and thus become the most powerful woman in the world. Cowles claimed that the affair was consummated in China, and that on a visit to the U.S. a few months later, she told him "If Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world. I would rule the Orient and Wendell would rule the western world." He pointedly did not dismiss the possibility that Willkie, had he been nominated, might have accepted her highly improbable offer on some level.
I'm thoroughly speechless.
 

randomkeith

Banned
Had that happened in the 18th century then possabley. I think she was just suffering from Megalomania whilst Cowles just wanted some Asian Phunani (yes babe we can rule the world together - anything you say babe, - you got a sister???)
 

Hendryk

Banned
I think she was just suffering from Megalomania whilst Cowles just wanted some Asian Phunani (yes babe we can rule the world together - anything you say babe, - you got a sister???)
When you look at the men they married in OTL, you realize there was no shortage of ambition among the Song sisters.

SoongSistersfilm.jpg
 
I have a biography of Chiang Kai-shek that says something pretty similar - strange but true, it would seem. :eek:
 

ffeind

Banned
Well, if she proves to be as "able" as that dowager empress bitch, then goodnight, free world.
 
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