Word: peng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of Yang Kuo. Said one, gazing down at their old master in murder: "We surrendered, and we still walk and see. Here lies former Comrade Yang Kuo, white-faced, pale and dead." British leaders were jubilant. Yang Kuo was the No. 2 Malayan Communist, second only to Chin Peng himself...
Manuel J. Cabral, Anthony T. Enders, Mark H. Feingold, John F. Grogan, Peng-Liu Mei, Bruce R. Parker, Peter A. Rayel, David T. Schwartz, Anthony J. Shafton, Christopher D. Stone, Donald E. Tingle, William A. Trebilcock, Mishael A. Wolf (captain), Gerald P. Kelly (manager...
...club established the Peng Yu (Friend) Club to serve the growing number of Chinese students and faculty members at the University of Washington...
Last year they set up Malaya's first popularly elected government, prepared for a period of temporary confusion and uncertainty while Malayans found their political feet. Chief Minister Prince (the Tengku) Abdul Rahman moved immediately to make peace with the Communists, offered an amnesty to Chin Peng, who has been waging guerrilla war in the jungle for eight years (TIME, Jan. 9). Stung by Chin Peng's taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence...
...descended on them at the bitter end of 1949. The first Nationalist governor to take over from the Japanese at war's end had arrived with a retinue of carpetbaggers and incompetents. In 1947 a rebellion flared which lasted three days, was bloodily put down by General Peng Meng-chi, then commander of the Nationalist garrison and now acting chief of the general staff. Thousands were killed...