Word: tsaoyang
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...With Wallace . . ." Treatment of missionaries and mission property by the Reds seemed to depend on the whims or decisions of individual officers. In the city of Tsaoyang, mild-mannered young Missionary .Philip Werdal, of Bellingham, Wash., underwent repeated interrogation from 27-year-old Communist Colonel Wong, graduate of Nanking University, an American-supported mission school. Wong looked at Werdal's soft hands, then at his own calloused ones. He said he was a Communist because he wanted, some day, to have soft hands...
...With Wallace as your President," intoned the up-to-the-minute young Communist, "we could have peace. He represents your lao pai hsing. With Truman and the rest there can be no peace." After eight days of this, he ordered the missionaries to leave Tsaoyang. Hard-handed Wong kept some souvenirs: two radios, Pastor Werdal's Parker "51," and a silk sleeping bag belonging to an elderly woman missionary...
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