Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week put the finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army...
...station. Waiting on the platform was a solid array of Communist bigwigs-Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Commander in Chief Chu Teh, foreign affairs expert, Chou Enlai, a score of lesser party bosses and assorted "democratic personages." From the train into this welcoming group stepped dignified little Madame Sun Yatsen...
Blood Pressure. Three weeks ago Chiang had appointed as Premier Sun Fo, son of the great Sun Yatsen. Sun Fo last week was recovering from a leg operation and suffering from high blood pressure. He had not slept for nights. He had invited leader after leader to serve in his cabinet. None wanted to share the responsibility of continuing the war. After Paul Hoffman's Shanghai press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Sun Fo went to Chiang with the proposal that the new cabinet be given Chiang's permission to seek a deal with the Communists that would...
...room, saw dozens of visitors, counseled his field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being considered. He bade Chinese remember the deathbed words of Sun Yatsen: "You shall never yield to the enemy...
...fortnight ago, China's National Assembly overwhelmingly elected Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek President of China. Then they turned to the election of a Vice President. At first, everything was smooth as cream. At the Dragon Gate restaurant, delegates sipped tea with Candidate Sun Fo, whose father was Sun Yatsen, hero of the revolution, and who was second only to the Gimo in Kuomintang prestige. Four other aspirants were equally polite and formal...