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Muddy Pearl. Junks and sloops were anchored offshore. A Japanese trawler arrived from U.S.-occupied Okinawa, carrying oil. Macao's Wharf No. 31, an oil pumping dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal...
...strung along with his strategy of armed revolt by city workers, but when Moscow switched to Mao's strategy of organizing a peasant army, Chou managed to switch, too. Chou went to work teaching the new army the political tricks he had long ago taught the Nationalists in Whampoa...
...General Lin Piao, the Communists' top military theoretician and a zealous party doctrinaire. While most of his fellow commanders are of peasant stock, Lin comes from China's bourgeoisie; his family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
Born near Pyongyang, he is said to have been trained at China's Whampoa Military Academy, and later in Moscow. His original name was Kim Sung Chu. Reason for the change: in 1945 he rode into Korea with the Red army, whose commissars billed him for a few days as "the Korean hero, Kim II Sung." There had been an authentic guerrilla hero named Kim II Sung, who disappeared after the 1919 independence movement. When Koreans pointed this out, the Russians dropped the hero legend, but Kim kept the name. Measure of his success in Stalinizing North Korea...
Korean Marshal Ch'oe Yong Gun, 44, chief of staff of the North Korean army. In 1922, at 16, he was ringleader of a school strike. He went to China in 1925, studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, then went to Russia in 1931. He served in the famed Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army...