Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coos & Contempt. From Peking, after a meeting between Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi and eight visiting members of the Japanese Diet, came word that Chen had cooed a few hopeful words about peace talks. Just as Washington started wondering whether the war's most obdurate advocate might be backing off a bit, the Chinese ambassador to Poland, Wang Kuo-chuan, set matters straight. Following a meeting in Warsaw with U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski, the latest in a series of 130 private, little-noted conferences between representatives of the two nations since 1954, Wang delivered a blistering statement, obviously...
Washington could only conclude that Foreign Minister Chen's pacific tone had been expressly calculated to soothe his Japanese guests...
...other hand, the men who rose to power over these bodies were all outsiders to the central party organization: Tao Chu, 60, fanatical head of the Central-South regional bureau, who assumed control of the propaganda apparatus; Chen Pota, 62, Mao's longtime ghostwriter, who now bosses the Red Guards; Lin Piao himself, who, though a Politburo member since 1950, has never been deeply involved in the party machinery...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...