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and hard-working student, he
managed to enter the Yali School in
the provincial capital of Changsha
and later Yale-in-China University.
He went to Munich University
in 1926 and received his Ph.D. in
political economics in 1932.
In 1935, Ho...
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and hard-working student, he
managed to enter the Yali School in
the provincial capital of Changsha
and later Yale-in-China University.
He went to Munich University
in 1926 and received his Ph.D. in
political economics in 1932.
In 1935, Ho started his
diplomatic career within the Foreign
Ministry of the Republic of China.
His first posting was in Turkey. He
was appointed First Secretary at the
ROC legation in Vienna in 1937.
When Austria was annexed by Nazi
Germany in 1938, and the legation
was turned into a consulate, Ho was
assigned the post of Consul-General.
After the Kristallnacht in 1938,
the situation became rapidly more
difficult for the almost 200,000
Austrian Jews. The only way for Jews
to escape from Nazism was to leave
Europe. In order to leave, they had to
provide proof of emigration, usually
a visa from a foreign nation, or a
valid boat ticket. This was difficult,
however, because at the 1938 Evian
Conference 31 countries (out of a
total of 32, which i
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