Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Land to the Tillers. But not leathery General Li Tsung-jen, the dark horse from Kwangsi. He broke boldly with the Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank...
...smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not the Gimo's choice. There were roots of distrust reaching back to 1929 when Li led a brief defection of Kwangsi generals. But his strong words made him a rallying point for all the non-Communist dissatisfaction in China-intellectuals, army officers, northerners whose lands had been overrun by the Reds...
...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...Hunan and Kwangsi, China's sadly famed domains of hunger, 16 million people last week were suffering from what UNRRA experts termed "sudden and acute starvation...
...task of getting the supplies from the ports where UNRRA delivered them to the starving interior was up to China's own CNRRA (Chinese National Relief & Rehabilitation Administration). But CNRRA was paralyzed not only by transportation shortages, but by towering inefficiency, "squeeze" and partisanship. Samples: in Kwangsi Province, 13 junks loaded with medical supplies for Mme. Sun Yat-sen's "Peace Hospital," inside the Communist lines, were diverted to the Nationalists. Flour supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese...