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Watching from his island stronghold of Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed in the name of humanity to "all Chinese," whatever their political persuasion, and to all "foreign friends" for flood and famine relief to save the mainland from disaster. He did more: he sent some of his own transport aircraft to drop 60 tons of rice over the worst-hit mainland provinces. The generalissimo did all this despite the cluck-clucking of the U.S. State Department that such assistance ought not to be rendered to enemy regimes. In so doing, Chiang, a practicing Christian, showed more magnanimity, good sense...
...Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate son of the French marshal, generalissimo of all the Allied armies (and presumably, therefore, a Faulknerian Marshal Foch). And where was the Christ-corporal born? In a stable...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, durable ally of the U.S., last week began his second six-year term as President of Nationalist China. For his inaugural address in Taipei he wore a ceremonial long gown; a crowd of 50,000 cheered him and broke police lines. His hearers included some 160 members of the Taipei diplomatic corps...
...Chinese delegation. The first was Chou Enlai, Red China's Premier, Foreign Minister and head of the Geneva delegation. Beal had last dealt with Chou in Nanking in 1946. At the time. Beal was on a leave of absence from TIME to serve as an adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the period of the Marshall mission. Beal got to know Chou well during his China stint. "It was there," says he, "that I learned what the Chinese Communists were like. Chou was my teacher. He was in Nanking heading the delegation negotiating with the Nationalist government...
During the years 1944 to 1946, Wedemeyer commanded the U.S. troops in the China theater and served as chief of staff for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. In the summer of 1947 he made a special report for President Truman on Korea and China...