Word: shan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew to Chungking, 700 miles northwest on a Yangtze cliffside, were greeted there by thousands of bright "Welcome" flags. But the famed capital of Free China in the war against the Japanese seemed as dispirited as the rest of non-Communist China. It had survived seven years of blockade by the Japanese. Now it would be an isolated capital again, with distance and not much else to guard it from the oncoming Reds...
...since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed in time that the Gimo was on his way, had rushed to the airport too late to greet...
...months ago, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, commander of besieged Taiyuan, kept 500 vials of poison in his office, swearing that he and his staff would kill themselves if the Communists took the city (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week the Reds held Taiyuan and the Marshal, unpoisoned and unbowed, was Premier of China...