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Administration would not win and could not stop [and] prevented half a dozen other threats from developing into war-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Formosa, Suez, Lebanon, Quemoy, West Berlin." At the same time, the Administration has built up "gigantic" but "balanced" military strength around the world, while closing the missile gap that it inherited from the Democrats. "The Eisenhower Administration today is putting 40 times more into [long-range] missiles each month than the previous Administration did in eight years." The Economy. At home, the Administration has spread the benefits of eco nomic prosperity "not by Government orders, edicts or controls...
...mainland and the world, Formosa's refugee scholars guard a treasure: the tradition of humanistic and rationalistic China. But Formosa is losing intellectuals so fast that the tradition is endangered. Last week, at the University of Washington in Seattle, 100 Chinese and U.S. scholars discussed ways of saving it in a five-day Sino-American Conference on Intellectual Cooperation. Chief recommendation: fast aid from U.S. universities and foundations as well as the Government, which has given Formosa huge sums for military defense but little for mental development...
...Formosa has no lack of eager young minds. With elementary education now compulsory, the island boasts 2,000,000 students, or one-fifth of the population, in 2,000 schools and 21 colleges and universities. But full professors average only $30 a month. With inadequate laboratories and libraries to work in. promising scholars desert the island. The U.S. now has nearly 4,000 Chinese students (mainly of science and engineering), more than those from any other country except Canada-and the Chinese seldom go home. Out of 700 science students who left Formosa for the U.S. in recent years, only...
Self-Help. In Seattle last week Dr. Hu and his colleagues came not as beggars but as bearers of self-help ideas. They want to increase exchange of scholars, students and artists with the U.S.-and give Formosa's intellectuals something to stay home for. They propose new cooperative ventures with U.S. universities, from science to Oriental religion. They emphasize that the island itself is a unique classroom for studying the mainland. One idea: a center to collate information on Communist China for Western scholars...
Most important, the Chinese feel that Formosa must become a truly thriving outpost of intellectual freedom for all of Asia. Said Dr. Hu, as he summed up the opportunity: "I believe I am justified to conclude that the men now in control of the Chinese mainland are still afraid of the spirit of freedom, the spirit of independent thinking, the courage to doubt, and the spirit and method of evidential thinking I believe the tradition of the humanistic and rationalistic China has not been destroyed...