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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...
After working for a time with the Soviet secret police, Lo became a political commissar in the Chinese Red Army, made the famed Long March (1934-35) to the North, where Mao Tse-tung had fled from defeat by Chiang Kaishek. Here, in Shensi, Lo mastered the technique of intrigue: inciting disputes among the students at the Communist officers' school in order to expose their attitudes, recruiting and rewarding informers and isolating and arresting those who openly defied the Mao faction. Lo's big break came during one of the fratricidal struggles within the Communist forces, when...
Charging that Chiang Kai Shek is "incompetant" and "unimaginable" and that the current policy was partially brought about by "China Lobby," Fairbank stated that the United States no longer has predominance in Asia. We must rethink Chinese relations, he stated...
Other considerations in our policy, Westerfield added, are retaining the loyalty of Chinese outside China, not appearing to be backing down to the rest of Asia, and not violating our treaty with Chiang and our other Far Eastern Allies...
...years Madame Chiang Kai-shek has suffered from a nerve ailment that causes painful skin rashes. Recently, her friends noted a sudden improvement in her condition, asked her what had happened. Reportedly replied Madame: "My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. I advise...