Word: yi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the mainland guerrilla leaders are known to old China hands of the U.S. Guerrilla chief in Inner Mongolia is General Ou Yu-san, former cavalry commander under ex-Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, who went over to the Reds. In Yunan, along the Burma border, the guerrilla boss is General Li Mi, who commanded the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group at the hard-fought battle of Suchow in November...
...Third Field Army (about 620,000) now seems mostly stationed in North China, and especially on the strategic Shantung Peninsula. Its commander is the redoubtable Chen Yi, conqueror of Nanking and Shanghai, a warrior-poet who is now mayor of Shanghai. After V-J day, from his lair in Shantung, he kept the Nanking government cut off from its great northern cities. Rumors have reached the U.S. that Chen Yi would like to sell...
...embodied in China's Red army, has been Mao's special creation, his fierce pride & joy. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla war have absorbed a good deal of his scholarly study. His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain...
...Boys' Christian Academy. He was picked up by the green hatbands in the spring of 1946, and his neighbors never heard of him again. Next were Kim Wha Sik, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Kim In Choon, president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Kang Yi Hong, secretary of the Pyongyang Y.M.C.A...
...Rhee's Korean name is Yi Sung-man. Transliterated into English, the Chinese character for Rhee's family name is commonly written "Yi" by Chinese and Koreans, "Ri" by Japanese. Like many Koreans, Rhee Westernized his name for convenience in dealing with Westerners...