Michael Alderton (essarem) notes that, in 1950, British artist of Polish descent, Feliks Topolski RA (1907-1989), set off from his London home and travelled to Mumbai, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, before reaching Hong Kong where he captured this informal portrait of General Cohen holding court in the lounge of the Hongkong Hotel.
The artist’s accompanying caption reads: General Morris “two-gun” Cohen, the late Sun Yat Sen’s assistant and one of the original members of the Kuomintang Party.
Australian journalist Jim Macdougall (1903-1995) provides a pen portrait of his meeting with General Cohen at this time: The Gripps Room at the Hongkong Hotel is the spy spot of the East. That’s where most of the plotting and eavesdropping is done. It is also the place where I met a fabulous character of the Orient, a now aged and rugged Canadian from London’s East End, General ‘Two-Gun’ Morris Cohen, who went out to China earlier this century (1922) in search of adventure. He got it in full measure. He became aide-de-camp and bodyguard to Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Republic.
Canadian journalist Gerald Clark (1918-2005) adds to the word picture: By late 1949, General Morris A. Cohen flew to Hong Kong and stayed at the Hongkong Hotel where he held court. He sat in the same corner of the lobby while government officials or business people – British, Chinese, European – sought him out, or responded to his messages.
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