Word: formosae
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...went to Shanghai in the '20s and studied Communism. Now, at 46, after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...
...Communist Representative Chou En-lai came back to the Nanking negotiations after a month's sulk in Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to Formosa on what he said was a routine, long-scheduled inspection trip. Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see. They saw plenty...
...could accurately forecast the effect of the Government victories on the Nanking negotiations. The Generalissimo, returning from Formosa, would have new successes with which to confront Chou Enlai. He might stiffen his recent eight-point peace proposal-or modify his demands (as he had done after Kalgan...
Land & People. The 7,083 islands of Manuel Roxas' steaming land are part of the off-Asia continental shelf, running 1,120 miles from Chinese Formosa in the north to British and Dutch Borneo in the south. Two seasons (wet and dry) make the islands fertile and the climate debilitating; typhoons, snakes and the islands' strategic position make them dangerous. The brown and purple mountains, the beaches like white teeth, the magic water, the hectic sunsets, and above all, the deep, hushed, lusting green of the jungle make it a lotos-land-except to politicians...
Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan...