Word: jens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Acting President Li Tsung-jen sent Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, his U.S.-educated (Wisconsin & Harvard) political adviser, off to Shanghai last week, Li hopefully quoted a proverb: "Absolute sincerity will open metal and stone." It was Dr. Kan's job to pick a delegation to plead with the Reds for peace...
...startling announcement by Kwangtung's new governor, General Hsueh Yueh: he favored a southern coalition of provinces to continue the fight against Communism. The next day he meekly blamed the statement on "faulty translation," and sent a message to Nanking disavowing any intention of upsetting Li Tsung-jen's peace negotiations. Concluded Governor Hsueh: "I have no ideas of my own. Please do not worry...
Acting President Li Tsung-jen made a gallant gesture: with the Reds only a few miles away, he gave a brilliant reception for Nanking's foreign diplomatic corps. The city was feverish with people in flight. Its main street swarmed with donkey carts, pedicabs, rickshas swaying under high-piled loads of furniture, straw baskets, boxes and bundles. In the railway station, refugees spent their New Year's Eve stretched out on piles of miserable baggage, waiting for trains that did not come...
When Chiang told Kuomintang officials to support Vice President Li Tsung-jen, one of his hearers asked: "What can Li do? What are his ways & means to improve the present situation?" Everybody in China, including Li, knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...With the hope that hostilities may be brought to an end and the people's suffering relieved, I have decided to retire . . . Vice President Li Tsung-jen will exercise the duties and powers of President . . ."When he finished, 61-year-old Chiang asked for comments, not on his decision, but on the phrasing of his statement...