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...Nationalists and Communists have recently fought air and sea skirmishes around the Nationalist-held Tachen islands off the coast of Chekiang, which provide Chiang's forces with a base for harassment of Communist shipping...
...teacher's son, Chen was born 56 years ago in Chekiang province. He attended the Paoting Military Academy, met Chiang Kai-shek in the early '203 and has been a trusted lieutenant and devoted friend ever since. During the wars against Japan and the Communists, he held important military commands (including chief of staff to Chiang in 1946-48); not even his foes ever accused him of the slightest personal corruption. He is polite, considerate and sincere, but his geniality is not softness. Once he had an army driver executed at the very spot in downtown Taipei where...
...Intrigue. Nationalist China reached to Washington to make its charge. The accused: Lieut. General Mao Pang-chu, 47, a fellow villager (Fenghua in Chekiang province) of Chiang Kaishek, stationed in the U.S. since 1943 as chief of his government's aviation procurement. The accusation: in the past five years, Mao 1) failed to account for almost $20 million in aviation procurement funds placed at his disposal, 2) protected disloyal staffmen and 3) spread rumors undermining the prestige of Nationalist China...
...brick government headquarters, nodded unblinkingly to an assembly of 200 of Nationalist China's remaining leaders-cabinet members, generals, governors of China's lost provinces and four former mayors of Shanghai. "At this critical moment," came the clipped tones of the Gimo's native Chekiang, "I cannot shirk my responsibility." He added optimistically: "I do not have any doubt that we will recover the mainland, that the Communists will be crushed . . ." That afternoon, the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang received a thousand guests at a tea celebrating the Gimo's return to office...
...Hangchow airport, about an hour and a half later, Formosa's Governor Chen Cheng and Chen Yi, governor of Chiang's native Chekiang Province, were among a small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...