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...such, Generalissimo Chiang, a slender high strung Chinaman, was first to fling himself upon the glass topped Sun coffin, last week, and loudest to sob. He controlled himself only when raised up and embraced by the towering Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
Such logic, profoundly philosophical, is unanswerable. Men with the vision to betray superiors who are later ruined and discredited, have not seldom achieved that universal esteem which may soon be the portion of Feng Yu-hsiang...
...Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
...charge that Feng Yu-hsiang is a "Red" or a "Bolshevik" is palpably absurd. The sanctity of private property and of the Holy Trinity are the rocks upon which he stands like a Bland Bronze Colossus. But the Soviet Government finds it desirable to subsidize Feng Yu-hsiang. He visited Moscow in 1926, and when the Soviet Embassy at Peking was raided in 1927, a warrant having been issued by the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, there were found documents-Feng's friends say forged documents-which showed that he had received from Moscow 27,350,545 cartridges...