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Chiang moved swiftly to restore Formosan morale. He installed as governor frail, ulcer-ridden Chen Cheng, a general turned civilian who had been with Chiang since student days. Chen simultaneously tightened police control and initiated basic reforms, notably land reform. Chiang had learned his lesson on the mainland: "The consensus is that our party failed during the past four years because we failed to enforce the principle of the people's livelihood...
Chief among those who have his confidence, and often summoned to his official residence at Shihlin, is Vice President Chen Cheng, 57, whom he has designated as his successor. A small man whose delicacy of talk and manner conceals a capacity for decisive, even ruthless action, Chen is a smaller, less commanding version of Chiang himself in appearance-a circumstance that led to a historic blunder when General MacArthur flew to Formosa in 1950, stepped from his airplane, seized then-Premier Chen and kissed him on both cheeks, exclaiming: "I have been waiting all my life for this moment." Generalissimo...
General Liu Po-cheng, battle-scarred, one-eyed "liberator" of Tibet, chairman of the Southwest area and commander of the second field army...
TIME'S Hong Kong driver is Chang Yu-cheng, 35, who began learning auto mechanics as an apprentice in Shanghai at the age of 15. He considers Hong Kong, with its well-enforced traffic regulations, a much easier place to drive in than Shanghai, with its ped-icab-ricksha-clogged streets. On the other hand, Tokyo traffic, reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these...
...Communist China, to a meeting in Geneva. Who knew what kind of deal the West might make behind their backs? At home, the management was frustrated by a lack of demand for their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...