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...year ago, K. C. Wu was Nationalist China's bright, particular star. He was an outspoken advocate of democracy among the Kuomintang's quarreling cliques, an honest official among many who were not. Chiang Kai-shek himself had picked able Administrator Wu as the governor of Formosa...
...letter to the National Assembly meeting in For mosa. Last week, charging that the National regime had suppressed parts of it, Wu published its contents. Said he: "I don't want to wreck the Formosan regime, but it must reform." His theme: to return to the mainland, the Formosa regime must have the "fullhearted support" not only of the Chinese in Formosa, on the mainland and overseas, but also of the free world. The Nationalist regime is endangering this support by its undemocratic practices. Wu listed them bluntly...
...Secret police: "During my three-year administration as governor of Formosa, hardly a day passed without some bitter struggle with the secret police . . . They made numberless illegal arrests. They tortured and they blackmailed . . . The people . . . only dare to resent but not to speak in the open...
...reports showed that the party's cooperatives and aid program in Manchuria actually knocked production down. In 1953 the party shifted its ground, told Communist cadres to tone down "socialist education" and put production before all else. Result: production no better than 1952. The Chinese Nationalists on Formosa count the peasants' discontent among their greatest propaganda assets, are trying to nourish it with leaflets dropped from planes which cross to the mainland almost nightly...
Forceful, independent K. C. Wu, once famed as the dynamic mayor of Shanghai, resigned as governor of Formosa last April and left for the U.S. for his health (asthma). After he left, his enemies in Formosa kicked up a swirl of charges that he had absconded with millions and was living in a $189-a-day hotel suite in New York. K. C. Wu kept silent, set up housekeeping in Evanston, Ill., and began lecturing to make his living. His wife did the cooking and he did the dishes. From time to time, he wrote Chiang, refuting the charges...