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...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...that the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa are free to move, what do they hope to accomplish, and what kind of help do they need? In New York, bespectacled Tsiang Ting-fu, chief Nationalist delegate to the United Nations, carefully laid out his government's attitude...
...make . . . My plan is not that American air and naval power should be used to help Free China's infantry to invade the mainland. My plan is that Free China should acquire enough naval and air power . . . so that [it] can independently invade and liberate the mainland." (On Formosa last week, President Chiang Kai-shek emphasized only that he "will not ask for aid in ground forces...
This may be hopeful talk, far beyond Chiang's present capabilities. But the U.S., for its part, is committed to nothing. Obviously Eisenhower will not stand by and see the Communists launch an invasion against Formosa. The U.S. could make Chiang's raids more effective by providing the raiders with more arms, and with naval and air cover. No Administration official contemplates U.S. armies helping Chiang on the Chinese mainland, and Chiang has not asked for such help...
...movie-thriller finale, Author Liu tells how he escaped to Hong Kong. He eventually made his way to Formosa, where he wrote Out of Red China. Not every Chinese facing Liu's dilemma could have done this. Fortunately for the world's knowledge of Red China, Liu is an orphan - without a family back home to suffer for his candor...