Word: ho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which...
...Bubble-Ho, Pretty...
...sympathy and profound admiration for your spirit against the Japanese. I beg you to give up your belief in force, change your policy, partake in the government. . .help nationalize our armies and realize constitutional China . . . put an end to chaos. Once you join the government, if you wish General Ho Lung [veteran Communist commander] or anyone else to assume my command, I would welcome and assist him. With your assent I myself would serve under him obediently and loyally. A peaceful, united and democratic China is not only the need of our people but the hope of America and Russia...
Everyone knew that retired Brigadier General Evans F. Carlson was a Marine, and a good one. In the early days of the Pacific War, his Gung Ho Raiders wrote heroic headlines at Makin and Guadalcanal. Not so many U.S. citizens knew that General Carlson had also long been an apostle of Communistic causes and Communist-fringe groups. In 1939, after traveling 2,000 miles as a military observer with China's Communist Eighth Route Army, he had resigned from the Marines to push his crusade. Last week Old China Hand Carlson made his ideology perfectly clear to everyone...
From Hong Kong, in 1930, Ho tried to organize a Viet Nam revolt, but failed, and hid under several new aliases while the affair blew over. During World War II, he turned up in Viet Nam as Ho Chin Minh ("Mr. Ho the Bright Spirit"), turned out the Japanese puppet ruler and organized an anti-French rebellion. Once in power, he decided that Communism could wait. Says Ho: "Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said we should love our enemies. We are still far from that ideal. I do not know when Marx's ideal will be achieved...