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...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
...after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...arrival of Government troops stirred anger and alarm in hunchbacked, round-faced Chen Wei-fu. He is one of Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must...
...general. They begged for retribution and protection. The general told them they must help. There were Communist informers and fingermen in the villages. Slowly, his intelligence men, with whispered guidance from those who bore grudges, rounded up Paiyen's underground. Most important captive was onetime Magistrate Chen Wei-fu...
Your admirable piece on Chen Li-fu [TIME, May 26] should quiet the notion that support for Chiang Kai-shek will prevent collectivism. Chen's goal, "key industries owned by the state," suggests what's ahead...