Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...Manchuria, Chiang Kai-shek's trusted Chief of Staff Chen Cheng was cleaning house among grafting politicos and generals ; he had had at least two generals shot, some 30 more jailed...
...first whirlwind week in Manchuria, Chen invited 100 bigwigs to a tea party in Mukden. While his notable guests were sipping tea, Chen made them a little speech: "You gentlemen here can trust me when I say I have never squeezed. In this respect-to make a joke-I am 50 years old and like the spinster who has gone through many hard years struggling to keep her virtue spotless and knowing well that relations with a man even once would have ruined her reputation forever." Politely the 100 guests laughed...
...Chen continued: "The job of eliminating squeeze must begin here in the very center of the northeast. Those who have illegally seized houses and lands from civilians must restore them immediately to their rightful owners. This is an order. We will cure or kill. Or we'll send those who disobey home without houses and lands. . . . Some of you sitting here, whose names I'll not mention, have been talking smartly, but let me warn you that accusations have been made." The 100 guests no longer smiled...
...Freshmen in Group 1 standing are Robert Ashenhurst, Jero W. Bruner, Geoffrey D. Bush, Thompson M. Clarke, Francis F. Chen, Hampton Davis, Oscar DePriest, Samuel I. Epstein, P. W. Gifford, Jr., S. William Green, Ulrich E. Kruse, Vaslilos G. Letson, Gavin Miller, James Schlesinger, V. E. Starzinger, and M. B. Yarmolinsky...