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...busiest weeks since he took office, President Eisenhower also received President Remón of Panama (who brought Panamanian Indian costumes for the Eisenhower grandchildren), Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such...
Formosa. President Eisenhower, with Dulles' approval, canceled the Truman order that obliged the U.S. Seventh Fleet to protect the Communist mainland from Chiang Kai-shek's troops. This change created a threat, made it more hazardous for Mao to mass strength on the Korean, and Indo-Chinese borders...
America's China policy seems to us neither idealistic nor realistic. How can there be idealism in friendship with a regime (Chiang Kai-shek's) which corruptly squandered the billions of dollars generously given to it? What realism is there in refusing to understand that such a regime can never regain power in China? That China's actual, effective government is the Communist government in Peking? And that the more vigorously Peking is boycotted by the West the more closely Peking will be tied up with Moscow...
...struggling revolutionary movement under Sun Yatsen. With some Moscow gold and his own silver tongue, he engineered a working alliance between Communists and Nationalists, showed Sun Yat-sen how to organize the Kuomintang on the tight Moscow pattern, including a Soviet-type secret police. Borodin barely escaped when Chiang Kai-shek turned against the Communists in 1927. Back in Moscow, he fell from party favor, wound up as editor of the English-language Moscow News...
...prisoners at Camp Three never stopped harassing their captors. Recalled Corporal Salvatore Conte of Brooklyn: "They said that Chiang Kai-shek had no legal rights to Formosa. It was supposed to be a free discussion, and so I piped up and said that according to agreements made between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, there wasn't anything wrong with Chiang being on Formosa. I really didn't know what I was talking about, but . . . I wanted to say something to knock them down." The reactionaries set fire to the lecture hall, poured ink into Chinese laundry baskets, refused...