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...probably Marshal Vasily Bluecher, a Civil War hero who fought the White Cossacks and White General Wrangel's forces (1920). later drove the Japanese out of the Maritime Province and captured Vladivostok. Chiang Kai-shek drafted Bluecher as military adviser to China, where he helped organize the famed Whampoa Academy. Shortly thereafter Chiang broke with the Communists and took over Whampoa; Bluecher became Russia's top general in the Far East. "If war bursts like thunder in the Far East," he once said, "we will answer the attack with such a blow that the foundations of capitalism will...
...Whampoa Military Academy (onetime commandant: Chiang Kai-shek), Lo joined the Communist Party in 1928 and went early to the Soviet Union through the Eastern branch of the Comintern...
...pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit into the party in Germany in 1922. With his administrative deftness, Chou helped Mao lay the steely wires of discipline and organization across China...
...they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping to China. Most of the ships that call there are Communist-owned, but occasional vessels flying Western flags, including the Union Jack, have been spotted...
Behind the charges lay a complex story of bureaucratic intrigue and counter-intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made...