Word: formosae
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Mutual Fear. Then, unexpectedly, one day last week, Syngman Rhee flew to Formosa for talks with Chiang Kaishek. The two anti-Communist leaders had specific issues to discuss: 1) What should be done with the 14,600 Chinese prisoners who are due for release at Panmunjom next January? 2) Should Chinese Nationalist troops be sent to Korea if fighting is resumed? But what drew them together was a mutual fear that their U.S. ally was drawing back from the front line in Asia...
...Formosa newspapers have recently played up the decision of Admiral Robert Carney, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, not to transfer landing craft "at this time" to Free China's navy, and his statement that he is checking U.S. Pacific naval operations "to see where we can cut back." They also singled out a remark by Secretary of State Dulles that the U.S. is not forever opposed to the recognition of Red China, if it gives up its aggressive ways...
Died. Wu Te-chen, 65, onetime Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of Nationalist China (1948-49), secretary general of the Kuomintang Party (1941-49), and mayor of Shanghai (1932-37); after long illness; in Taipeh, Formosa...
...Angeles' mystery man get all the money? No one knows. Los Angeles' better Business Bureau and California's state corporation licensing agency have both investigated Sacha Wolanow, given him a clean bill of health. He talks about "rich friends" in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Hong Kong and Formosa who want to invest their money in the U.S. "I got the cash," he says. "What for I want to explain? I got friends . . . who are thinking of the future. No one knows what gives. So these people get their money to me and I invest it for them...
...commander of the 148 said that the remainder who would come out in the next three or four weeks were the real core of the fighting men, who still felt bound to obey Formosa's orders. (Chiang Kai-shek's government has agreed to outlaw any who refuse to leave.) Spry, 70-year-old William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime chief of the OSS and now U.S. Ambassador to Siam, was on hand for the first processing in the jungle. "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," said Wild Bill...