Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister came austere, youthful (44) General Chen Cheng, one of China's ablest and most honest soldiers (TiME, June 16, 1941). It was General Chen who last year turned back an incipient Japanese drive on Chungking. It was he who helped organize the successful Chinese expeditionary force now fighting in North Burma. A protégé of Generalfssimo Chiang (who officiated at his wedding), General Chen is a veteran of Kuomintang campaigns against warlords and Communists. But of all Kuomintang generals, he is generally regarded as persona gratissima with the Communists. A realist who is perfectly sure...
Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
...other high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
...notch four goals and clinch the contest. Although the prep schoolers tried hard, they couldn't penetrate the Crimson defense enough to do any serious damage. The summary: G. Livermore; lh, Sternberg; rf, Corrigan; lh, Coon; ch, Kern; rf, Siller; or, Jessner; ir, Potter; c. Simitch; il, Gelert; ol, Chen...
...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...