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...middle and rich peasants are afraid to expose their wealth, fearing that somebody may come along to borrow from them without returning the loans-"like tigers borrowing pigs." The report quoted Middle Peasant Ho Yao-hsiang: "Why bother to make production such a success? It will be sufficient if you grow enough to keep yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote...
...Chen married Tan Hsiang, comely daughter of Nationalist China's first Premier, and they now have six children, all attending school at Taipei. Tan, a Christian, has tried to convert her husband to Christianity, but he remains loyal to Confucius...
...Walter Judd and Senator William Knowland were shaken last August by a new outcry of corruption against the Chiang Kai-shek government. The attack came from two officers serving with the Chinese Air Force Mission in Washington-Lieut. General P. T. Mow and his chief aide, Colonel V. S. Hsiang. Their superiors in Formosa had asked them to account for $19 million entrusted to them for military procurement. Publicly refusing to do so, they declared that they were being persecuted by Nationalist thugs and thieves. Somehow, their version of the dispute, vague but voluble, made frontpage news...
...hands, and to return any money still left (the Nationalists thought there ought to be $7,000,000). Mow retained as his attorney Colonel William A. Roberts, a Washington lawyer who fed a steady stream of "news" to reporters; the newsmen apparently hardly paused to ask whether Mow and Hsiang were really the victims and opponents of corruption they claimed to be. Over Roberts' objections the district court insisted that it had jurisdiction, ordered plaintiff and defendant to appear to tell what he knew about the money...
About the Money. At that point (beginning in January) Mow and Hsiang began to act like men afraid to test their case before a judge. The court managed to get its hands on only $614,000 of the $7,000,000 or so which Mow presumably still controls. Mow quietly took a powder: on Jan. 23, then on Feb. 8, he failed to appear for deposition. He went to Mexico City instead. Hsiang also absented himself from Washington. Last week, to Attorney Roberts' embarrassment, came news from Hong Kong: Hsiang's family had gone from San Francisco...