Word: feng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feng rises against Chiang...
...June)-Feng gives up, is forgiven...
During one of his defections, Chiang threatened to send airplanes against him. Feng's lieutenants were frightened. Feng took them to task as follows...
...Feng was a ham. He loved to play the successful man who did not forget his lowly origins. He affected a coarse cotton tunic, but underneath he wore silk-lined furs. To his guests he served only cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they...
...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...