Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peiping, heady with triumph, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week pondered this telegram from China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen. No victor in China's millennial history had ever received a more humble plea for mercy or a more complete admission of defeat...
...commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador to Russia...
...February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...
President Li had already picked his new Premier; precise, poker-faced General Ho Ying-chin, formerly Minister of National Defense and chief delegate to the U.N. Military Committee. In Hangchow to pass his 60th birthday, Ho first demurred that he was unworthy of the job, then wired Li his acceptance...
...While Li Tsung-jen consolidated his political camp, there came menacing news from across the Yangtze. The Reds were shifting armies closer to Nanking; along roads north of the river a steady stream of rice-laden wheelbarrows and donkey carts were building up Communist food reserves. Engines were being dismounted from trucks for installation in river craft. To aid their battle of ideas, the Reds were cocking...