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...spite of what General MacArthur called a "stalemate" in Korea (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Communists are being hurt more than the allies. In three days last week the allies claimed 20,000 enemy casualties. From Taipeh, Formosa, whose intelligence on the Chinese mainland has proved excellent, came a report that Mao Tse-tung had decided to send 150,000 men of his Second Field Army, plus 60,000 "irregulars," to replace losses in Korea. Commanding the new troops was one of Red China's top generals, Liu Po-cheng, famed as the "One-Eyed Dragon...
This week the Navy announced that Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin will relieve Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble as commander of Seventh Fleet, operating off Korea and Formosa. Admiral Struble, an amphibious-warfare expert who led the Inchon invasion, will return to the U.S. to take over First Fleet, Martin's old command...
Chiang Kai-Shek's "Free China" (Formosa) continuously gets applause from "The Freeman." In "Can Chiang Trust America?" by Alfred Kohlberg, the exiled dictator is pictured as "simple and direct. . . a deeply religious Christian." Mr. Kohlberg, Treasurer of The Freeman, made his fortune in export trade with Nationalist China and was registered as a representative for the Kuomintang government. Grand Strategy articles in the magazine call for an active war against Communist China through arming Chiang. Thus, while America keeps her troops at home, we can "free Eurasia without expending a single American soldier in battle." Europe is written...
...Life Begins at 40. The Barb's skipper, Lieut. Commander Eugene Fluckey, knew that a fat Jap convoy had holed up in Namkwan Harbor on the China coast opposite Formosa. Gene Fluckey and his crew "cased the joint." Going in, the Barb was going to have to take its chances with the enemy minefields; going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort...
...Turned Formosa over to the strong Peking government...