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...China simply could not for long wear the mask of peace: the role was unnatural. Last week, after all his Geneva talk of a desire for a little peace and quiet, Chou En-lai proclaimed that Cornmunist China's next order of business is to invade Formosa. "It is imperative that the People's Republic of China liberate Taiwan," cried Chou. In the achievement of this "glorious historic mission," Red China will not tolerate interference from "United States aggressive circles. If they dare interfere . . . they must take upon themselves all the grave consequences...
...speech, delivered on the eve of British Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee's arrival in Peking (see below), Chou dismissed Attlee's suggestion that Formosa be placed under U.N. trusteeship. "Taiwan is inviolable Chinese territory," Chou declared. "Its liberation . . . is an exercise of China's sovereignty and China's own internal affair." The Red Premier accused the U.S. of occupying Red Chinese territory by sending arms and instructors to help Formosa defend itself. "This increases the danger...
...exile in Illinois, Formosa's ex-Gov ernor Dr. K. C. Wu has grown increasingly violent in denouncing the Chiang Kai-shek regime he once served. "Formosa has been perverted into a police state," he cried shrilly in Look. Last week China's most respected scholar, Dr. Hu Shih, onetime (1938-42) Ambassador to the U.S.. entered an emphatic rebuttal. It was all the more forceful because Philosopher...
Writing in this week's New Leader, Hu Shih was particularly scornful of K. C. W7u's implication that the political and military situation was good while he was governor of Formosa (1949-53), but that it has deteriorated tragically since...
...fact is," said Hu Shih, "that Formosa was far from the rule of law and democracy in those early years of 1949-51 ... and only in the last three years, and notably since June 1952, has there been a far greater measure of civil liberties and the rule of law than at any time in the past . . . Freedom of speech and the press is now shared by all who have the moral courage to speak out . . . Elections have been and still are quite free. In the recent May 2 elections, the Kuomintang candidate for mayor in the capital city...