Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such logic, profoundly philosophical, is unanswerable. Men with the vision to betray superiors who are later ruined and discredited, have not seldom achieved that universal esteem which may soon be the portion of Feng Yu-hsiang...
Recently the major northern cities of Peking and Tientsin were captured by Feng's troops (TIME, June 18, 25); but last week he ostentatiously eschewed the role of Conqueror. With a gesture that smacked of authentic greatness the Broad Bronzed Marshal left a part of his victorious forces in the field and modestly withdrew to Honan Province, central China...
Friends of Feng-and he has many, white, yellow-hailed him as renouncing personal glory and proving the sincerity of his professed devotion to a great ideal: Nationalism or the Unification of China under a People's Government. That ideal in concrete form is at present the new Nationalist Government at Nanking. To it Marshal Feng sometime since pledged the voluntary support and subordination of himself and his immense, completely independent army. In the name of the Nationalist Government Peking and Tientsin were conquered...
...effect the enemies of Feng-and they are many, white, yellow,-"But really, you know, Feng has conquered those same cities before, in so many other names. . . . Feng's a traitor, a Judas! Of course the Missionaries like him. He's the only Chinese War Lord they ever converted. But watch out for Feng! He gets his arms from Moscow, got 27,000,000 cartridges. He'll ditch the Nationalists yet and keep Peking for himself...
Traitor's Past. Though nearly all journalistic historians of modern China explicitly describe Feng as a "traitor," .the Christian Marshal's missionary friends continued, last week, indignant at the adjective. The peculiar reasoning by which the missionary mind arrives at a conclusion opposed to the journalistic has seldom been better exemplified than by Miss Luella Miner of the Shantung Christian University, who wrote last week: "I challenge [anyone] to point to any 'cause' or superior officer or associate whom Marshal Feng has 'deserted' or 'betrayed' that has not been discredited later...