Word: feng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...
...General Feng Vu Sheng, formerly second in command to Chiang Kai-Shek, and Alexander Hsu of the Chinese National Student Federation will discuss "Chinese Democracy and Chiang Kai-Shek" tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The Committee for Wallace is sponsor...
...neither the State Department nor Feng did anything about his return. Last week, Feng was still talking and some American liberals were still cheering him as a democrat...
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...