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...refugees and army demands, the island, once self-sustaining, may be short of food. Government monopolies (inherited from the Japanese) and fixed prices for island products make it next to impossible for anyone but the government to export. Imported consumer goods are priced beyond reach of the average Formosan. "The Chinese are squeezing us," complain the islanders. "They put everything into their pockets. They act like people who don't plan to be around very long. The Japanese at least furnished us with the cloth and consumer goods we needed...
Pigs Just Eat. This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as "liberated" inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: "We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs...
...resentment has failed to weld a solid revolutionary party. The island's leaders are more emotional than realistic. Fifty years of Japanese control kept them out of top government positions, barred them from adequate administrative experience. Though all are bitterly critical of both Nationalists and Communists (said one Formosan recently returned from Red Peiping: "The regimes of Nationalists and Communists are like eggs laid down by snakes of the same family"), they seem more interested in paddling their own canoes than shaping a strong third force that would be the best weapon against the communism they all hate...
...former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...
Five-Year Plan. Chen stalled only till his reinforcements-Chinese regulars and MPs-had arrived from the mainland. By last week Chen had executed or jailed all the leading rebels he could identify and catch, and his troops had wantonly slaughtered (said a Formosan delegation in Nanking) between 3,000 and 4,000 throughout the island. Moderate tea-merchant Wang, Chen said, was deceased: "When the troops arrested him, he resisted and was shot." Chen closed down Formosa's last newspaper because it printed a Nanking report that he would be fired...