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...Navy's Seventh Fleet* "to prevent any attack on Formosa." Thus if the Korean invasion was a feint and a prelude to a Chinese Communist attack on Formosa, the U.S. would be there to block it. In exchange for this protection, Harry Truman called on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government to cease provocative bombardment of the Communist-held mainland...
...minute audience with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, brought back some interesting impressions. Stalin, he said, was in fine health and "sharp in his eyes." The U.S.S.R. had made great progress since Lie's last visit in 1946: "The streets were now repaired; there were new and large roads and avenues . . ." As for the people: "They wore shoes and they had ties now, and they had suits like anyone else." Lie had gone to a Moscow soccer match and, reported he, "looking around, I said to myself: 'That crowd could be transferred to Ebbets Field on a Sunday afternoon...
...Denial. What about this durable and much-debated personality, the Generalissimo, now that he has taken back the presidency? Chiang has done nothing at all to revive himself as a hero; if he is a reviving force, it is because the Communists, Chinese and Russian, have made...
...failures on the mainland, nor denies that much past aid was dissipated in those disasters. Chiang suggests a military EGA, in effect an effort similar to that directed by U.S. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet in Greece. Who would direct such an undertaking in Formosa? The Generalissimo would consider it "reasonable" for General MacArthur, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, to assume responsibility for Formosa's integrity pending the signing of a Japanese peace treaty. But Chiang insists that there be no infringement of China's sovereignty or administrative integrity. Such a move, of course, would...
...take his word for it. Born in China, the son of a missionary who later became moderator of the United Church in Canada, Endicott spent most of his youth close to the church. After twelve years as a China missionary, Endicott became an adviser on social-welfare problems to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Like many another Westerner, he was shocked by the poverty and corruption he saw in China, but his disillusionment ran deeper than most. He came back to Canada in 1947, highly critical of the Chiang government and full of praise for its Communist enemies...