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...great Chinese War Lord Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (150,000 men), called the "Christian Marshal," partly because he has distributed thousands of bibles to his troops. He has several times visited Moscow, unquestionably receives a large subsidy (real or counterfeit) from the Soviet Government. In China there has been no outcry against Feng charging him with paying his debts in bad money...
Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
...same time, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will deliver a course of six lectures on the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Sun-Yat-Sen and the spirit of democracy, Borodin and Bolshevism, Chiang Kai-sek and militarism, Feng Yu-hsiang and religion, T. V. Soong and capitalism, and C. T. Wang and modern science will be among the characters discussed...
Easier in mind than he had been for months was President Chiang Kai-shek last week. Painlessly, tactfully, he removed the discordant figure of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General," from the harmony of Chinese politics...
Faced by advancing Nationalist Armies, lacking the allies he had counted on, stalwart, crop-headed "Christian" General Feng Yu-Hsiang realized dismally last week the inopportuneness with which he had declared war on the Nationalist Government (TIME, June...