Word: formosae
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...subject with TIME'S reputation for reporting integrity . . . The Vanishing Island made a very deep impression in Tokyo, where it was seen by many of our country's leaders ... I was privileged to join the group traveling with this play when it left Japan for Formosa, the Philippines, Thailand and Burma. It is difficult to conceive of any mission, primarily composed of Westerners, receiving such a wholehearted and impressive response...
...from old friend and new Communist, General Wei, who came back under an assumed name to stir up other defections. Soon afterward, General Yu received a visit from another old friend, General Li Mi, onetime commander of Nationalist troops in Burma, who now occasionally visits Hong Kong incognito from Formosa. Both left his house without any commitment from General Yu and presumably without any certainty that Yu had not committed himself to the other...
...three unidentified ruffians waited in the shadows of his doorway as he drove up to his house, ordered him inside and shot him dead. Called by a fleeing servant, the police arrived in time to kill one assailant while the others fled. Loath to borrow trouble in matters involving Formosa and Peking, the Hong Kong police at first attempted to dismiss the whole incident as "a simple robbery," but later, thinking better of it, posted a whopping reward of $3,500 for the missing murderers...
...believed that the Nationalists' only chance of regaining the mainland turned on the readiness of the U.S. to lend active military support. When events-as he read them-indicated finally that the U.S. Republican Administration was not apt to do more than a Democratic Administration to put the Formosa troops back on the mainland, he abandoned hope. He argued that the Nationalists must give up the idea of returning to the mainland and make the best of things on Formosa...
Major Kuo, the Communist agent, had served with Sun in Burma and Manchuria, and was trusted by him. He arrived on Formosa as a refugee from the Communist mainland, but was in effect, said the Nationalists, a Communist plant. "I had no idea," said General Sun. "It came as a surprise...