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...finances for the trip to, and possibly from, Tibet, Duke says that the Brigade "does not yet have sufficient funds to send over a large group." It is hoped that volunteers will be able to provide themselves with arms and passage to either Calcutta or Formosa. The Brigade will give them the names of "contacts" at these places to guide them to the hitherto undetermined mustering point...
...California's Mills College, winsome Amy Hsiao-chang Chiang, 21, turned out with classmates and faculty members for a picnic lunch in a dormitory courtyard, giggled at a series of skits staged by freshman girls. Sophomore Amy, who transferred to the all-woman school this term from Formosa's University of Soochow, is the granddaughter of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the daughter of. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. She has thus far not dated any U.S. swains but is frequently escorted by her brother Alan, a University of California freshman...
...shouted away. The horror expressed by neutral nations at Red brutality was answered by strident threats; even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
Useless Pig Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough...
When, in early 1955, the Communists launched concerted attacks against Chinese Nationalist positions up and down the Formosa Strait, Dulles took it as a crucial probe of U.S. intentions. His response was immediate and unmistakable. The President sought and got a congressional resolution of support for U.S. defense of Formosa and the Pescadores; the President followed that up with a personal letter to Nationalist China's Chiang promising support at islands Quemoy and Matsu. Result: the Communists backed off, and the whole Red China offensive, rolling ever since Mao Tse-tung came out of the Yenan caves, was bogged...