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...observations while on Formosa in May coincide with those of John Osborne in his courageous statement, "U.S. Tragedy in Formosa" [TIME, July 17]. As he said: "Any child can observe" our anti-Chiang policy there. I was troubled by it then, as I am troubled by our effrontery now in bottling up Chiang Kia-shek...
Harry Truman certainly wished he knew, and so did the State Department and the Pentagon. They did not even know about the general's flying trip to the Chinese Nationalist capital on Formosa (TIME, Aug. 7) until he made it. And while they were belatedly and reluctantly beginning to warm up-by degrees-to the Nationalists, they looked in their newspapers and read of diplomatic gallantries between MacArthur and Mme. Chiang and fervid comrades-in-arms exchanges between MacArthur and the Generalissimo...
MacArthur's own version of what went on, when it came, told less than the papers. "It was so sketchy that you can't dignify it by calling it a report," snorted a White House intimate. "The President knows that MacArthur flew down to Formosa, and that MacArthur and Chiang discussed the defense of Formosa and Chiang's re-offer of three Chinese Nationalist divisions-and that's all he knows...
With Douglas MacArthur in Formosa, imagination would not be lacking. K.C. Wu himself, who has an amazing capacity for believing the best of the U.S., has never doubted that the U.S. would help the Nationalists. He speaks with resounding confidence of a Nationalist return to the Chinese mainland within a year...
...will probably be a long time before K.C. Wu and his comrades again see ' their homeland. Meanwhile, what Wu and his friends have done on Formosa adds up to one significant message-the Chinese Nationalists are still fighting...