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Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
...officers are the product of two institutions. In the early years of the republic, Paoting Military Academy turned out eight classes of men who helped implement the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and who now command about one-third of China's 300-odd divisions. In 1924 the Whampoa Academy was founded under the direction of Chiang Kaishek. Its classes became the elite of Chiang's armies. They now command more than half of the divisions...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
General Chen is a favorite partly because he has curried favor. He is one of China's most political and ambitious generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...
This was a victory for the Whampoa (West Point) clique of Chinese generals who hate & fear the Communists and are jealous of the publicity given to the Fourth and Eighth Route Armies. But it was no victory for China. What has kept the Communists fighting for Chiang is the fact that they fear Japan more than they fear Chiang Kaishek. If Japan (or Russia) could convince the Communists that they have less to fear from Japan (or Russia) than from Chiang Kaishek, China's jig would...