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...middle 505 and tall for a Chinese (about 5 ft. 8 in.), Lo Jui-ching was born in Nanchung, in mountain-girded Szechwan. His parents belonged to a class he has since all but exterminated: the landlords. Trained in the famed...
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...
Because of an old wound, Terrorist Lo cannot smile, but only grimace, and he speaks through clenched teeth out of the corner of his mouth. A chain smoker, heavy drinker and woman chaser, Lo has made a unique contribution to Marxist dialectics: he invented "the deviation of boundless magnanimity" (i.e., being too soft on counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political...
...Resistance of Millions. Lo's career in the People's Republic began in 1949 when Mao ordered him to take China's fragmented police forces in hand and transform them into a unified Communist whole. At that moment (the time of the U.S. State Department's White Paper, writing off China), much of the country was in chaos, the Communists' hold was anything but sure, and probably 60% of the existing police were ex-Nationalist holdovers. Simultaneously, Lo had to direct a series of armed struggles with guerrillas and bandit gangs which amounted...