Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lack of Danger. Marshall made it clear that the President's plan was as far as the Administration would now go. He did not minimize the danger of a Communist victory. Under sharp questioning by Minnesota's Walter H. Judd, he agreed that if the Chiang government fell, the Communists would immediately seize all of China north of the Yangtze, would hold the key to all the rest. He agreed that such a turn would make the U.S. position in Korea untenable, would force "a very serious situation" on General Douglas MacArthur* in Japan...
Back in China, people were not so easily deceived. They did not refer to Feng as the "Christian General." They had always called him tao-ko chiang-chun, or Turn-Spear General. But then, most American liberals don't speak Chinese...
Last summer Chiang said merely: "Never mind, we must be broad-minded." Said he last fall: "Let him talk. He always did like to talk." But last month the Chinese government ordered his return, informed Washington that Feng's "diplomatic mission" was over. Cried a Chinese editorialist: "Return to China at an early date and repent before Jesus Christ...
...Well then, if the droppings of crows which are more numerous than Chiang's airplanes have not hit you, can you not rest assured that no bombs from airplanes will fall on your head...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...