Word: formosae
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Soong is now living comfortably in the U.S., where much of his money is. He has failed to obey the summons of his brother-in-law, Chiang Kaishek, to go back to Formosa and take his share of responsibility for the defense of the last citadel of the Chinese Nationalist government...
Last week from Formosa came an announcement of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang: T. V. Soong was no longer a member of the committee. In Manhattan, Soong made no comment...
...Chinese Nationalist government this week announced the execution in Formosa of three men and a woman: Lieut. General Wu Shih, former Vice Minister of Defense; Lieut. General Chen Pao-chong, former conscription boss; Colonel Nyi Shih and Miss Tsu Kan-tse. Charged with having plotted to deliver Formosa to the Communists, they had been under arrest since last March when a secret radio transmitter was found in the Defense Ministry...
This makes bargaining hard for Quirino, but he may yet discover that he cannot do without Laurel's aid. The fall of China has encouraged the Huks. Should China's Communists take Formosa, only 65 miles from the Philippines' northern tip, Filipino Communists would become an even more serious threat to the government...
...this situation, as long as there are anti-Communist forces on Formosa who say they want to resist, the morality of renewed U.S. aid is hard to challenge...