Word: hued
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...
...been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
These words pointed clearly to Dr. Hu Shih, one of China's greatest educators, who is not a member of the Kuomintang and who has recently advocated uncompromising resistance to Communism. Chiang would probably stay on as head of the army and perhaps as Premier. But he clearly meant to guide the Chinese people away from their reliance on one-man leadership. Said he: "Whoever is President I will support with all my heart and all my strength. I will prove to the people that I am a loyal public servant...
...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
Paris' Raymond Duncan, exoatriate brother of Dancer Isadora, headed for San Francisco on his first visit to hu old home town in 38 years, stopped off en route at Los Angeles, in flowing Grecian robes, sandals, long hair and all, and explained his philosophy of actionalism: "I'm not teaching-I'm living a philosophy. I'm like a rabbit on a vivisection table: I'm living...