In one thing Ww stood out head and shoulders above his contemporaries: he alone of the long procession of rapacious and greedy tuchuns of the "twenties never tried to make his personal fortune out of polities. And when he went down defeat and passed out of public life, he was as poor as he had been, when he first entered it. The Chinese are a practical people, and they at-Tach the greater value to a virtue, the more diMeult they find it is practice.
Marshal Wu Pei-fu, with all his foulls, was a fine character and a true patriot, That, nevertheless, he was a complete political failure may be nicribed to the fact that, like many other well-known failures in history, he was born a century or two too Tate, Interesting Speeulat It is interesting to speculate when ther, if Marshal Wu Pel-fu, instead Kai-shek, had sue would have
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