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After the Chinese Communists took over the city of Chengtu in December 1949, they stirred up an enthusiastic welcome from war-weary students at West China Union University, a 42-year-old interdenominational college run by Chinese and Western Christians. Dr. Dryden L. Phelps, 59, a Baptist missionary with 30 years' experience in China, was as enthusiastic as his students. He thought that the university's energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian...
...long session before the board, Dr. Phelps handed in his resignation. In doing so, he clarified his views but did not deny them. He still thought, from his own observations, that the Communists had been partly responsible for "a new spirit" of cooperation and brotherhood in Chengtu. Said Dr. Phelps: "To see what good there is in something so little understood and so generally condemned as Communism in China is a moral obligation...
...Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...
...gave Yenching his blessing). Until 1941, even the Japanese kept their distance. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, the conquerors took over and imprisoned President Stuart for 3½ years. Some students and professors managed to escape, walked 1,000 miles to westward, and opened the university again in Chengtu...
Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...