Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the carnage of battle or in the ruins of a captured city, long-faced, scholarly Communist General Chen Yi liked to compose poetry...
Then Frank Buchman himself introduced a dozen or so "honored guests" for one-minute speeches. Dr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese ambassador to the U.S. from 1938 to 1940, was "profoundly impressed with Dr. Buchman." Said grave, grey Dr. Chen Li-fu, newly elected Vice President of China's legislative Yuan: "The Chinese Parliament ... is still in session. But the urgency of the world situation . . . compels me to join forces with you today in this great international family." He told reporters earlier: "If Confucius were alive today, he would probably be here...
...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...
Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin man recited a bitter song sung by "abused, ill-equipped local forces." The song...
Bart Jan Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, heads a University delegation that includes Mering, Chen Chung Chang '49, and Bozena Nemcova of Radcliffe...