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...Generalissimo Chiang: "I do not suggest that the millennium is in sight...
...agreed last week to sell the Chinese Government 130 million rounds of surplus rifle ammunition. It had been made expressly for the Chinese Army's 7.92-mm. Mausers ("Generalissimo" model) in Lend-Lease days, but never delivered. For months it had rested in U.S. West Coast dumps, no use whatever to the U.S. Army...
General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...
Chen's close relation to Chiang Kai-shek-the deep source of Chen's influence -is saturated in hsiao and cheng. With the Generalissimo, Chen is respectful to the point of reverence. He counsels, but only as a good son might make suggestions to his honored father...
...formal occasions, when many guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...