Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took China's Central Government seven months to bring its No. i war criminal to trial, but only six hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...
...blue-gowned but urbane Chen, once a revolutionary and after that Kuomintang Minister of Industry and Commerce, did not lose the polite composure that had lent an oddly gracious note to his trial. Bowing, he had told the court: "Whatever judgment your honor may pass on me, I will not appeal...
...Government accused Chen, among other things, of persecuting patriots, making secret treaties with Japan, and injecting propaganda into textbooks. In his 60,000-word defense, Chen denied everything-including any motives of personal gain. Said he: "I have no house on earth, and no cash in the bank. If I say I have no property, people won't believe me. If I admit I have, I won't believe myself...
National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...
...soccer lineup for the Tufts game: g Arias, rf Reckis, lf Ransom, ch McKinney, rh Ruibal, lf Seamons, ol Chen, il Chun, cf Miller, ir Azcarraga, or Dawson...