Word: whampoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiang, too, accepted the Russians at first. He went to Moscow in 1923 to study Russian military setup. He learned enough to organize China's own Whampoa Military Academy when he got back. That was not all he had learned. Chiang wrote...
...gave especially patient attention to the training of China's new army, lecturing his Whampoa Academy graduates like a Chinese father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...
Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...
...military implications of the Manchurian disaster were also serious. After mopping up around Mukden, handsome Communist Commander General Lin Piao, once Chiang Kai-shek's star student at the Whampoa Military Academy, will be able to mass some 250,000 Red troops for a southward thrust at Peiping and General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. Unless Fu can get substantial reinforcements, the fall of North China will be merely a question of Communist convenience...
...less likely possibility is Fu Tso-yi, energetic and relatively successful commander in the northwest. Fu is not a member of the Whampoa group but would probably be more acceptable to it than would Li. Fu and Li are both members of the Tsa-Pai (mixed label) group...