Word: jens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good prewar years. Formosan tenant farmers, who under the Japanese paid as much as 70% of their crops in rent, now pay only 37% to the landlord. Formosans have also been mollified by the improved morale of 500,000 Nationalist troops largely trained by V.M.I.-educated General Sun Li-jen...
...Formosa the Chinese soldier is best seen at General Sun Li-jen's famous training center near the southern end of the island. General Sun is all that has been said of him - a blocky, fiery, forceful man, trained at V.M.I. and devoted to America as well as Nationalist China. General Sun told me among other things to please ask my New York offices not to suspend his subscriptions to TIME and LIFE. He has sent in his renewals but is afraid that his subscriptions will run out before they arrive in America...
...military men believe that a Red invasion can be turned back by the U.S. Seventh Fleet, together with the Nationalist army of about 500,000 men who have been licked into top shape by V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen. They concede, however, that the Red Chinese air force of about 300 fighter-bombers and 100 medium bombers might deal crippling blows to ports and industries of the island stronghold...
...earnestness of younger men far beneath the stature of Chiang-Chinese who still seem to want to save their people from Communism. They are the men who cannot escape: they have no place else to go. They include the troops trained by V.M.I.-educated General Sun Li-jen with U.S. Army methods, and they include U.S.-trained Navy men whose destroyer escorts are running out of three-inch shells. Somewhere along the ragged route of failure, the U.S. rightly or wrongly assumed a moral obligation to these younger Chinese. The look of a hungry friend is in their eyes...
When the news of Chiang's return to office reached Hong Kong, headlines in the pro-Communist press jeered: BALDHEAD GOING BACK TO THRONE. In New York City, where he has been convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington...