Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were shocked (although Chen has been too correct to say so). To Marshall and other Americans Communism still seems a distant threat. Chen and his friends have had the Reds breathing down their necks for 20 years. It has been war, bitter, open, accepted. Nationalist Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei accepts the fact of war so completely that he can say: "I don't like it, but I don't blame the Communists for tearing up the railroads." And Chen Li-fu held the following icy dialogue with Communist Leader Chou Enlai...
...give further assurance that Formosans were no longer to be treated like stepchildren, Nanking abolished the governor-generalship outright. Hereafter Formosa will be run like a province of metropolitan China. In Chen's place Nanking was sending a diplomat this time-wise, soft-spoken Wei Tao-ming, Kuomintang lawyer and wartime Ambassador...
Even today, Chinese of all degree may soothe their souls with the old masters' rhymes. A refugee still barred from his northern home by the civil war might wonder with Wang Wei...
...kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
General Marshall himself arrived at 10 minutes before 8. On a cold concrete apron, wet with melted snow, a cluster of photographers and dignitaries were waiting. Among the latter were Ambassador Stuart, Premier T. V. Soong, Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, General G. Q. Huang, Communist spokesman Wang Ping-nan. It was all very casual and informal-no ropes, no visible guards; everyone intermingled...