Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal Wu, striking a table with his fist, cried: "Not only the Japanese compel me, but God also! Well, the answer is still...
...then ascended a sacred platform, knelt before the benign, adipose image, prayed for divine guidance in drawing an answer from a set of specially prepared lots. As he was praying, the altar attendants, who were obviously in the pay of Japanese, stacked the lots, so that Marshal. Wu drew...
Several months ago the Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused...
...Marshal Wu was touched. "Wait," he said. "Let me ask Buddha...