Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Red Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Chen Chia-kang arrived in Leopoldville last July to visit the new Patrice Lumumba government, he found an eager ally in Communist-leaning Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes...
Thank you for your article [Sept. 19] regarding the Chinese Nationalists' arrest of my father, Lei Chen, the respected publisher of the magazine Free China, and the head of an effort to organize the China Democratic Party as a legal and anti-Communist opposition group on Formosa...
...When Lei Chen, 63, publisher of Formosa's wistfully ineffective opposition Free China Fortnightly, in August announced plans to start a China Democratic Party to give the Kuomintang its first real opposition (TIME, Sept. 19), the authorities apparently decided to arrest him first on sedition charges and then see what proof they could find. They also arrested his business manager, Ma Chih-su, 38, and his former accountant and secretary, quiet, moody Liu Tzu-ying, 54. Without waiting for the trial, the government's Central Daily News laid out the government's case. Secretary Liu had confessed...
...might have saved his breath. At week's end the military court found all three men guilty, sentenced elderly Publisher Lei Chen to ten years' imprisonment with an additional seven years' deprivation of citizenship rights, sufficient to keep him out of politics until...
...Chen case would be a disgrace at any time, but for Chiang's American patrons it is particularly disturbing with Premier Khrushchev making loud noises at the UN about a seat for Communist China. Mao has been sufficiently bellicose in the recent past to scare away his usual support from India and other Asian neutrals. Chiang's antics, however, show once again that his friendship (like that of other dictators) is of dubious value for the United States. His dependence on American aid is such that the State Department need not keep quiet while civil liberties die. The lesson...