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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...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...
...weeks a sleek, needle-nosed model of the Matador guided missile has stood on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's desk in Taipei. He genially parried questions about it. So did Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, chief of the U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command, who also had a Matador model on his desk. Last week Chiang stopped his parrying and explained: Formosa's defenses now include a Matador missile squadron, the first in the Far East...
...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
Franco's promise to ease up on the suppression of criticism should not be taken with too many grains of salt. The State Department, by quiet and personal influence, should press the Generalissimo to fulfill his cautiously liberal declarations...