They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […]

I should be quite happy. And I am certainly happier than those whose scores fell below the payline and who will not get funding. But I wrote several proposals to get that one funded, turning the process into a kind of lottery -- the more you play, the butter your chances (which is actually not true; it's just the only option).

Only after it was all over did I learn of their plan to seize me on board the Chungshan when I was to take it to go back to the Military Academy at Whampoa from Canton. They would then send me as a prisoner to Russia via Vladivostok, thereby removing the major obstacle to their scheme of using the National Revolution as a medium for setting up a dictatorship of the proletariat.

There are men that roll through life like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket ground on a sunshiny day […]