Word: fu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puppet government for all her conquered territory in China for the simple reason that no respected top-flight Chinese leader is willing to head it. The most respected Chinese figure not fighting on the side of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is China's oldtime warlord General Wu Pei-fu, once master of middle China before the Generalissimo deposed him in 1926. He is respected for his eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported willing to be head puppet...
...supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China the deposed Kang Teh, now puppet Emperor of Manchukuo...
...upstart bandit general, Wu Pei-fu is respected by many Chinese in his native Shantung Province who call themselves Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). Before he was ten years old, he could recite thousands of lines of the Chinese classics. No other Chinese military leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow...
...time studying and meditating in Buddhist monasteries since 1927, when he and other Chinese provincial war lords were defeated by Generalissimo Chiang in his great campaign to unify China. "He is too matter of fact to be good company,"commented Upton Close, who knew Wu well, "but Wu Pei-fu is one of the few men in China who cannot be bought."Last week the Marshal was available in Peking. If he has really come to terms with Japan (and in 1932 he wrote to Emperor Hirohito suggesting a Chinese-Japanese "conference of elder statesmen"for peace), the Great Powers...
...friends recalled that General Han Fu-chu, who did not surrender to the Japanese after he lost Tsingtao but fell back with his Chinese troops, was later executed by order of Generalissimo Chiang as a traitor, and that during the 15 months of the present war about 40 defeated Chinese commanders have been executed. In Canton, "The Birthplace of the Chinese Revolution," impassioned telegrams were received from Chungking in which Chinese President Dr. Lin Sen and Dr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "the Father of the Republic," exhorted the Cantonese to "defend your sacred soil...