Word: fu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peiping, which General Fu Tso-yi had surrendered to the Reds last fortnight, was nervously expecting the Communists to take over. Anti-Communist signs had been hastily removed from walls; Communist proclamations appeared mysteriously instead. Policemen were especially polite-anyone in the streets might be a Red spy. Out of the open city gates, disarmed Nationalist troops marched by the thousands...
More than a fortnight ago, the Gimo wrote Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi in Peiping of his decision to retire. The letter instructed Fu to make his own plans for North China. Last week, a typical Chinese solution ended the 40-day Communist siege of China's ancient capital...
Peiping's massive gates swung open and through them General Fu ("I will defend this city to the last!") marched 100,000 troops for "reorganization." At Peiping, Nationalists and Communists signed an agreement designed to "shorten the civil war, satisfy a public desire for peace and . . . prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further." The agreement did not mention "surrender...
While keeping his bargaining position behind the defenses of the two cities, Soldier Fu showed clearly that he had taken the hint. Last week his troops handed over to the Communists the great industrial and trading center of Kalgan, with all its bulging warehouses and factories intact. No destruction of any kind was carried out. Explained General Fu blandly: "All supplies, factories and manufactured products there . . . are wealth of the people and the property of the nation...
...Fu, like millions of other Chinese, seemed to be ready to make a deal with the Reds...