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...Manila, where Dulles announced that the U.S. will build its atomic research center for Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. In sensitive Japan he carefully went through Japanese immigration procedures, had his passport stamped, and spoke of the "relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation" between Japan...
...months of 1955. The crescendo of terror in 1951 and the skillfully timed and carefully calculated applications of terror since had their cumulative effect. One of the most enduring and resilient of peoples apparently gave up hope. Whatever those hopes had been-an internal breakdown, a return of the Formosa Nationalists, or simply, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, "hope from without"-six years of unremitting terror had finally crushed them. On this important fact most of the foreign agencies whose work it is to observe, analyze and report on Communist China agree. Millions of Chinese-something...
...last words marked a rededication of the China Club. Since the Communist invasion, the members have pressed for financial help for more than 4,000 Chinese students in the U.S., and for mass relief and resettlement of refugees in Hong Kong and Formosa. Membership in the club is working with the state Grange and the congressional delegation to sponsor a trip to Formosa by a group of Washington State farmers...
...last week, he got some valuable free publicity: Manila's Archbishop Rufino J. Santos warned his flock not to attend. The warning spurred more interest in Billy than the well-organized advance promotion aimed at the Philippines' 700,000 Protestants. Billy, on his way to Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan after his successful Indian campaign, did not seem happy, was diplomatic as usual. "The Catholic Church has been extremely friendly to me anywhere I have gone," he said. "However, I respect the archbishop's convictions...
Chef's Special. In Taipei, Formosa, after 40 soldiers came down with food poisoning, a Chinese Nationalist army spokesman apologized to the troops, explained that instead of flour, a cook had mistakenly used insecticide...