Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chen Li-fu and his brother had been given charge of the Kuomintang secret police. Loyal to Chiang, as hsiao required, they set up a Kuomintang underground, infiltrated Communist groups. Chen Li-fu traveled with speed and silence over south and central China, met with secret party leaders and hsien magistrates, testing the loyal, liquidating the disloyal...
...Says Chen with a wry smile: "I had planned to go underground for coal. Instead, I went underground for Communists...
...Chen and his brother saved the Kuomintang from Communist control; they got an iron grip on the machinery of the party. Opposition to Chiang Kaishek, or to Chen's CC clique, within Kuomintang China, became a dangerous matter. Chinese quipped: "Chiang chia t'ien hsia; Chen chia tang-The country belongs to the Chiangs; the party belongs to the Chens...
Harmony v. Class Struggle. From the crisis of 1927, when the Chens out-organized the Communists and beat them at their own game, comes the Communists' bitter hatred of Chen Li-fu. Because of him they missed control of the world's most populous country and of East Asia...
...Chen for his part learned a good deal (perhaps too much) from the Communists. Last week, bright brown eyes glistening sharply, he told TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin: "The Communist Party uses every human being as a working tool. It has no standard of humanity. . . . From questioning why people embraced Communism we derived countermeasures. We re-educated some to the truth of Chinese civilization, thus winning back their allegiance to the motherland. We stressed moral education. We tried to re-establish family life more satisfactorily. We gave the poor technical training, to better themselves and thereby lessen their envy...