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...present leadership and its foreseeable prospects. Unique among top commanders in his fluency in English (learned at V.M.I, and Purdue), he had often privately confided to visitors that the defeats on the mainland the troubles in the army command and the confusions on Formosa all traced straight to the Gimo's insistence upon personalizing his regime and identifying the Nationalist and anti-Communist causes with himself...
...dissent took on a broader basis than his estimate of the Gimo's personal defects. He had always believed that the Nationalists' only chance of regaining the mainland turned on the readiness of the U.S. to lend active military support. When events-as he read them-indicated finally that the U.S. Republican Administration was not apt to do more than a Democratic Administration to put the Formosa troops back on the mainland, he abandoned hope. He argued that the Nationalists must give up the idea of returning to the mainland and make the best of things on Formosa...
...Gimo" and the Prime Minister enacted their historical roles, that sturdy character, the American taxpayer, was performing an annual spring rite. All over the U.S., men and women of varying degrees of substance were taking pen and fate into their own hands and calculating how much or how little of that substance must pass to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Tax Time (NATIONAL AFFAIRS) has some faintly promising news for 60 million Americans...
...chief of the anti-Communist campaign in nine Manchurian provinces. At this point something snapped in General Wei's mind. Of his own accord, he abandoned his garrison in hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong, abundantly supplied with money and costly gewgaws. With his wife...
...increased Communist effort comes at a time when the U.S. is negotiating a defense pact with the Nationalists. The U.S. may spread its defense umbrella to cover more than Formosa and the Pescadores (though perhaps not every Nationalist-held island) if the Gimo in turn agrees to limit his mainland attacks to operations with a defensive purpose...