Word: formosae
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When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland to Formosa in 1949, only four diplomatic missions followed him-the U.S., the Philippines. Korea and France. Since then, though there has been a constant clamor to oust Chiang and to seat Communist China in the U.N., only 18 non-Communist nations have recognized the Red regime in Peking. But 44 nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt...
Last week the British dutifully returned the Pak Tang and her crew to Red China, but sent the 35 mutineers, at their own request, to Formosa. Awaiting them was a heroes' welcome and the promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...what went wrong in China and what ought to be done now. The book is not offhand reading: it is badly organized and repetitious. But its dry, fact-studded text - every line based on the dogged assumption that Chiang is still in the fight, despite his isolation in Formosa - expresses his unbending will better than could rhetoric or fulmination...
...West, moreover, ought to stop coddling neutralist nations. Instead, its overall policy should be a coordinated campaign of "indirect warfare" for "liberation" of the peoples enslaved by the new-Red imperialism. This drive should be pushed on all fronts-political, economic, social, psychological, military. Chiang strongly implies that his Formosa army and other anti-Communist Asian forces should be allowed to attack Red China in Russia's rear-without open U.S. involvement. He also suggests that this could be done without provoking a general war. (Such notions, Chiang concedes with what might almost be taken for irony, are likely...
...pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing else to do." Watching the sacred wooden temples of Nara, 8th century capital of Japan, Author Coates senses the painstaking, frustrating drive towards perfectionism in the Japanese soul, virtually...