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Chu Teh

British  
/ ˈtʃuː ˈteɪ /

noun

  1. 1886–1976, Chinese military leader and politician; he became commander in chief of the Red Army (1931) and was chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (1959–76)

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Chu Teh had a fine cave suite to his left, Chou En-lai to his right.

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Chu Teh, 65, his oldest comrade-in-arms, is still nominally commander in chief of the Chinese Red army, but is apparently only a figurehead.

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Greater headlines have gone to Chou En-lai and to Marshal Chu Teh, but the man next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician.

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His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain.

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Mao was accompanied by his more-traveled crony, Chu Teh, commander in chief of the Chinese Communist armies, who had once studied at Moscow's Eastern Toilers' Institute.

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