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...Latin America are supplanting Asia as prime Protestant mission targets. In 1938, according to the council's estimates, China stations accounted for about 28% of all U.S. Protestant missionaries abroad; the figure for China had dropped to 4½% last year, with most of the remaining missionaries in Formosa and Hong Kong. In the same 14-year period, the percentage of U.S. missionaries assigned to Latin America and the West Indies rose from 16% to 27%, the percentage assigned to Africa (south of the Sahara) from...
...give the Chinese Communists an ever-ready excuse for threatening invasion. Last month, in a burst of near unanimity, the U.N. General Assembly condemned Li Mi and advised his guerrillas to get out or be interned. Li Mi refused, and in so doing defied the world. Last week, in Formosa where he is recuperating from a heart attack, he told TIME Correspondent John Meeklin his side of the story, in his first interview since the controversy began...
...five Nationalist generals, loyal to Li Mi. The National Salvation Army, says its commander, has its headquarters on the forested plateau east of the Salween River, where the Burmese, Siamese and Indo-Chinese borders meet. It maintains an air strip, has reliable radio contacts with the government of Formosa...
...situation, Li concedes, is now "very difficult." Why then does he reject the U.N. proposal that his men should be evacuated to Formosa, where they may live to fight the Communists another day? For one thing, he says, his men are determined to stay where they are. What's more, says the general, the U.N. and the U.S. have been duped by Communist charges that the National Salvation Army is a collection of bandits. Such "vilification," he says, actually included the charges that he personally had been riding around Bangkok in a fancy limousine, that he supports no fewer...
...lair in the Shan mountains will not be an easy matter. Says General Li Mi: "Rather than evacuate ... we could still turn to smuggling or even become bandits and plunder to stay alive. Look at my people. Now they have full freedom to fight the Reds. Here [in Formosa] they would be leashed...