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Ever since U.S. Ambassador to Formosa Everett F. Drumright resigned two months ago, the Administration has scouted for a successor. Finally, last weekend, it picked a man who appeared to have the right qualifications: former (1949-52) Ambassador to Moscow Alan G. Kirk...
...Laotian delegation was determined to go on looking for dollars,to finance its last-ditch stand against the U.S. line, planned to stop at South Viet Nam, Formosa, South Korea. Since these countries are heavily supported by the U.S.. it would merely be a roundabout way of getting U.S. funds, and the chances looked slim. For better or worse, the U.S. is still determined to force the anti-Communists of Laos into neutrality...
...they fall flat down and holler bloody murder. But we just pick 'em up and carry 'em to the bridge and send 'em back." Defensively, he added: "What are we gonna do with 'em? Hong Kong's bursting at the seams with Chinese refugees. Formosa won't have them. The United States has a strict quota system-and don't send them to Australia, thank you.'' The grim question of refugees from Red China got a rare public hearing last week in Hong Kong's Legislative Council...
...junk, the six youngsters were vouched for by a Hong Kong relative who would guarantee their support. But the police arrested the six for illegal entry, brusquely pushed them back across the border. The Hong Kong Tiger Standard blasted the government for an "appallingly inhumane blunder." The president of Formosa's Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because Red China cynically gives exit...
...suggested that Hong Kong will get tougher on the refugees but will continue to leave the door slightly ajar. One telling point made by Burgess: the refugee problem is one that "no country in the world is in practice willing to share with us." Over the past ten years. Formosa has taken only 14,000 Chinese refugees from Hong Kong-little more than twice the number admitted to the U.S.. and fewer even than Canada...