Word: formosae
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...John Osborne's report, "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa" [TIME, July 17], I get the impression that it is again time for the U.S. to make an all-out effort to support the Chinese Nationalists. Yet, if I am not mistaken, very poor use was made of the American aid that was sent to Chiang Kai-shek when the Nationalists were still in a strong position on the Chinese mainland...
...material for this week's cover story on K. C. Wu, governor of threatened Formosa, has been drawn from many sources, including firsthand guidance from John Osborne, TIME-LIFE senior correspondent in the Far East. Osborne took off for the Far East a month before the Korean war began. It was a new experience for a seasoned correspondent whose geographical beat during the last 20 years has been mainly Europe and the Americas...
...East Osborne has moved from the Philippines to Hong Kong to Formosa to Tokyo. TIME has run three of his reports from this area as by-line stories. They were: an account of the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines (July 3); an indictment of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa (July 17); a report on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s views on issues of major interest to the U.S. (July 24). In addition to weekly copy and guidance for TIME Inc.'s editors, Osborne has also sent along some incidental personal impressions...
...There was a time during my stay in Formosa when I thought of murdering those active gentlemen, the buglers of Taipei. I stayed in a hostel near a Chinese army post. Naturally, the post has buglers. Chinese buglers are not to be compared with any others of my experience. They do not content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then...
...chance came in 1948, when he joined the staff of TIME. As a correspondent for TIME & LIFE, he reported the last bitter triumphs of Communism in China, covered guerrilla warfare in Indo-China, went along on a Chinese Nationalist bombing raid from Formosa to Shanghai. When war started in Korea, ex-Marine Fielder volunteered to cover it, left his wife and ten-month-old son behind in Hong Kong. He was aboard the light cruiser Juneau when it shelled Korea's east coast, and filed a notable report-"Last Train from Vladivostok" (TIME, July...