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...listening. A few weeks ago a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, digging for the roots of U.S. policy, talked to some American farmers, found they disapproved of Chinese Communists on moral grounds. A thought struck the Guardian man. If these moralistic Americans, he wrote, could be told that Chiang Kai-shek was corrupt, they might take a more reasonable view. The news the Guardian man missed: the charges against Chiang are not news to any American able to read or listen to the radio. The Americans have long since put Chiang in perspective and have gone on from there...
...commander of the 148 said that the remainder who would come out in the next three or four weeks were the real core of the fighting men, who still felt bound to obey Formosa's orders. (Chiang Kai-shek's government has agreed to outlaw any who refuse to leave.) Spry, 70-year-old William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime chief of the OSS and now U.S. Ambassador to Siam, was on hand for the first processing in the jungle. "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," said Wild Bill...
...satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
...ground rules, and they were not always stopped by the Indian chairmen. "We have 90 days to explain to you," one explainer said, "and we will talk to you time and again if you don't come with us now." One lied: "Taiwan has been overrun and Chiang Kai-shek overthrown." One boasted: "We destroyed the Nationalists, and soon we will take over Taiwan...
...their flagpoles. On Oct. 1, the anniversary of the Red conquest, Mao partisans wave the five-starred Communist flag. On Oct. 10, the Nationalist anniversary (called "Double-Ten" because the Chinese Republic was proclaimed in 1911 on the tenth day of the tenth month), the followers of Chiang Kai-shek wave their flags...