Secretary saw that Jennie's truth was told

IN the many years that Jennie Chen Chieh-ju's memoirs were missing, an unlikely woman came to learn of her secret past and was determined that she would help to fulfil Jennie's wishes that the truth be known.

Ginny Connor, a secretary in New York City took extensive notes from the memoirs in 1971 and still possesses correspondence between Jennie and James Lee and his brother William Yinson Lee. The former wrote the English transcript; the latter acted as her representative trying to find a publisher in the United States.

''I have always wanted to honour Jennie. It was a terrible thing they did to her,'' she said from her home in South Carolina this week.