Word: peng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Reds proclaimed their shortlived ceasefire, the villagers emerged from underground, and farmers went back to the fields to harvest what was left of their millet, sweet potatoes and peanuts. "If there is a lack of anything," Red China's Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai broadcast to the people of Quemoy, "just tell us and we shall give it to you. It is time now to turn from foe to friend...
...Lengths. After Dulles departed, the Communists stopped shelling for a while, and Red Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, in a broadcast beamed at the Free Chinese, announced that shore batteries would hold their fire every other day so that supplies could reach Quemoy. Furthermore, said Peng, the Peking government stood ready to supply Quemoy with "anything" the island lacked. "It is time now to turn from foe into friend," he added...
Dunster lineman Peng-Siu Mei scored four goals yesterday in pacing his team to its fourth straight House soccer victory...
...Chinese." Yet more was obviously involved than a Red retreat. Peking was eager to exploit a wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told...
...even Peng himself apparently expected Chiang to heed Peking's appeal for direct negotiations with the Nationalists...