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...aggression and expansion in Asia had gained nothing. They failed to follow up their feint in Tibet; they stood idly by while Ho Chi Minh's Communists in Indo-China and the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines got their ears pinned back; Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan are as intact as they were last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Way Out | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...China is afraid. Waging a war against it are hundreds of thousands of anti-Communist guerrillas. Many of them are equipped and led by the Free Chinese on Formosa, 100 miles off China's coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...recent months, thousands of Chinese have been executed. Formosa's intelligence apparatus, which has been very reliable, disclosed many of the killings, and execution reports also peppered the pages of the official Communist press. New China News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...over to the Communists two years ago in the hope that Mao Tse-tung would give them a "more liberal" government. The irony of their plight is that while the Communist government has been steadily disclosing itself to be a Communist government, Chiang Kai-shek's government on Formosa has made some progress toward 20th Century liberal polity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...From Formosa, the Chinese Nationalists punctuated the Communist Minister's remarks. The Nationalist Control Yuan this week told the U.N. that China's Communists, with Russian backing, have plans for killing 150 million Chinese in a deliberate program to reduce China's 450 million population to more manageable proportions. According to the Nationalist Defense Ministry, 1,000,000 Chinese anti-Communists have already been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Neither Too Young Nor Too Old | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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