Word: liu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party's ace public...
...south, meanwhile, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi continued his withdrawal down the Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could...
Xavier (Gincinnati) 75, LIU...
Said brash Legislator Liu Pu-tung, a strong advocate of peace: "The road to peace has brightened." An army general read the terms. "Surrender?" he snorted. "They are asking far more than surrender." Most officials were cautious, but they thought the door to negotiation-on the Communists' terms, of course-might be opening...
...large village of Chiang-chiahu, forward headquarters of General Hu Chang-ching's 99th Army. "We are fighting from village to village," said affable, silver-toothed Hu, pointing to some pillars of smoke a couple of miles ahead. "Chen Yi's sixth column and some of Liu Po-cheng's troops are. throwing up defense lines between here and Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group." There were 20 or more tough miles still to go for a junction with the encircled Huang...