Word: yu-hsiang
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...Dwight Filley Davis would never think of suggesting that President Calvin Coolidge ought to do his own marketing, or that Mrs. Coolidge ought to be the White House cook. But just such suggestions were made last week by China's Minister of War, the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
Vice President & War Minister Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
...victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (195,000 men). With Marshal Feng's potent aid, Marshal Chiang accomplished the capture of Peking last Spring (TIME, June 4); and since then, with all China at least nominally subservient to Nationalism, the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek...
...most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
...conference of the Nationalist Marshals in Peking last week Feng Yu-hsiang proposed that "all except the best disciplined" Nationalist soldiers should now be disbanded, since victory has been won. The Christian Marshal's worst enemies will not deny that his troops are the best disciplined in all China; and therefore his proposal seemed the week's Perfect Wangle...