Word: formosae
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...Hangchow airport, about an hour and a half later, Formosa's Governor Chen Cheng and Chen Yi, governor of Chiang's native Chekiang Province, were among a small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...
...some sort of an interim government could be patched up, Vice President Li would probably take over the presidency. The Gimo might retire to Formosa. Last week, as though in readiness, his trusted former chief of staff, General Chen Cheng became governor of the island. Chiang's elder son, Ching-kuo, became the Kuomintang provincial chairman in Formosa...
...Nationalist troops, ammunition and supplies moving back from the Huai to Nanking. The government's 20th Army, stationed in Hankow, to the west, was being moved not to the Huai-but to Nanking. The Chinese government began shipping out dependents of government officials southward to Canton and Formosa...
...Vere Cole, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...
...give further assurance that Formosans were no longer to be treated like stepchildren, Nanking abolished the governor-generalship outright. Hereafter Formosa will be run like a province of metropolitan China. In Chen's place Nanking was sending a diplomat this time-wise, soft-spoken Wei Tao-ming, Kuomintang lawyer and wartime Ambassador...