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...hold such resounding titles as commander in chief of the First War Zone, commander in chief of the Chinese Expedition to Burma, and finally commander in chief of the Chinese Army. He became a full general, and a member of the Kuomintang's powerful Central Executive Committee. Chiang Kai-shek was so delighted with him that he renamed a town in Wei's honor-an honor that no other living Chinese has received...
...hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong, abundantly supplied with money and costly gewgaws. With his wife, and children by his first marriage, he lived quietly in a two-storied house, with a garden of pines and papayas. He played mah-jongg with other ex-officers, read...
Last week the Chinese Communists exulted: Defector Wei was in their hands and talking their language. Peking Radio broadcast a letter from Wei to his "colleagues and friends'' on Formosa, praising Peking's glorious achievements and denouncing Chiang Kaishek. Wrote Wei: "You have all seen that during the Korean war the powerful military might of our motherland forced the U.S. to a ceasefire. Taiwan [Formosa] will eventually be liberated." At last Communist report, Wei and his wife, seeing the sights of Canton, were "very lighthearted and thrilled...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK (382 pp.)-Emily Hahn-Doubleday...
...early 19305 every U.S. schoolboy -and his teacher, too-knew the essential facts about China's Chiang Kaishek: Chiang, married to a pretty Chinese girl with a U.S. education, was a selfless Christian general who had fought down Communists and war lords to unite his country for the first time in its modern history. Ten years later many a schoolboy, teacher and clubwoman was hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress...