Word: fenghua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before his retirement to his native village of Fenghua last January, President Chiang Kai-shek thoughtfully moved some $300 million of Nationalist gold, silver and foreign exchange from Nanking and Shanghai to safer vaults in Formosa and South China. There it was put under tight control of generals and officials loyal to Chiang. If the Communists toppled the peace-seeking government of Acting President Li Tsung-jen and tried to occupy all of China, the gold and silver would serve Chiang's still-faithful followers as a nest egg for further resistance against the Reds...
...nest egg back. He needed it, he said, to curb inflation-although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...
...Communists: "Chiang Kai-shek is especially important. The said criminal has now fled and may very possibly go abroad to hide beneath the cloak of American and British imperialism. You must act swiftly to arrest this criminal." Chiang Kai-shek was staying in his native village of Fenghua, from which he had set out 43 years ago to fight for China's freedom...
...subtle twist in this morale offensive, which was aimed at Chungking in general and at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since...