CHINA: Real Soldier

The Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar.

General Fu was something of a novelty among Chinese generals. In the field, he wore the plain cotton-padded uniform of a private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the...

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