Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that...
...counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...
INDIA A Letter for Chou In New Delhi last week, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave a last reading to his note to China's Chou Enlai, signed it and dispatched it to Peking. It was a strong answer. Nehru firmly rejected Chou's proposal that both Indian and Chinese troops withdraw 12 ½ miles from their present positions, which, in the cases of Ladakh and Longju, are deep inside Indian territory...
...India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...
Chou En-lai's note had fulminated in the Communist manner against the "sinister" forces "searching for "every chance to disrupt the great friendship between India and China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border," and concluded grimly that "we have to face the realities of a situation, and the present situation is that relations between our two countries are likely to grow worse...