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...Taipei the strict military curfew ended, but a substratum of anger and resentment lingered on both sides, after Formosa's anti-American rioting (TIME, June 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called it "one of the most shocking and regrettable things to have happened in my 50 years of public life...
Obviously neither the verdict nor the riots were made in Peking, but they were made to serve Peking's ends. Radio Peking* got busy with colorfully invented "U.S. atrocities against the Chinese people in Formosa." Samples: "In the first half of last year a total of 1,500 Chinese were killed or injured by speeding U.S. military cars . . . Americans love to let loose their big police dogs against the Chinese people ... In Keelung a U.S. soldier threw a child into the sea and drowned...
19th Century Memories. Actually, criminal offenses by the U.S. military on Formosa have been unusually low. There have been only five courts-martial in the past two years. On the other hand, many smaller crimes and misdemeanors go unreported, first because the Chinese, like people the world over, hesitate to get involved in the law's delay, and second because of a deep-rooted feeling on the part of many Chinese that they will not get justice even if they seek it. It was this raw nerve that the court-martial's acquittal of the sergeant touched...
While Americans were wondering just what to make of the anti-U.S. riots on Formosa last week, the press elsewhere around the world offered instant X rays by the dozen. From the propaganda potshots of Peking and Moscow to the emotional outbursts of Manila and Bangkok, few verdicts were favorable to the U.S. The most damaging to U.S. internationalism were the well-meant missiles of friends and allies that homed in on the very self-doubts that the violence had triggered in the U.S. press...
...likely to be interpreted as colonial), newspapers were less concerned with the broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed that this was "the root cause of trouble...