Word: jens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When China's Nationalists retreated from their refugee capital of Chungking last November, Acting President Li Tsung-jen did not go with them. Instead, Li took a plane to Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old stomach ailment. Ever since then, Nationalist China's fight against Communism has been directed by Chiang Kaishek, who came out of retirement to take over unofficially in Li's absence...
V.M.I.-educated General Sun Li-jen (TIME...
From V.M.I. The morale of the new Nationalist army seems to be good, and officers credit the improvement to the work of trim, greying General Sun Li-jen, 49, who learned the elementary facts about soldiering at the U.S.'s Virginia Military Institute. Sun served ably against the Japanese at Shanghai and later in Burma, where he commanded the snappy, U.S.-trained 38th Division. As one of the Nationalists' top commanders in Manchuria after V-J day, he beat the Communists consistently. In 1947, Chinese clique politics led to his transfer to Formosa and the Fengshan training camp...
...would require no U.S. expeditionary force to hold Formosa, the Joint Chiefs were assured. The Chinese themselves have enough arms & men to hold the fort: 250 planes and twelve well-equipped divisions (although lacking in some such items as tank ammunition) under V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen...