Stone, Jack

Jack Stone was born and raised in the Far East. As a teenager, during the Second World War, he was interned for three and half years in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai for British and American civilians. After graduating from the Shanghai British School he worked as a reporter for Shanghai's North China Daily News. The only part of that job he remembers was his scoop of the surrender, without battle, of General Foo Tso Yee and the Nationalist's most formidable fighting force to the Communist army. That surrender was the turning point of China's civil war. In Israel, to which he emi...