Word: kai-shek
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Ever willing to wait, he told Mao Tse-tung to come to terms with Chiang Kai-shek,. dissolve his army and refrain from making a bid for power in China. But in 1949 Mao drove Chiang Kai-shek out of the Chinese mainland, and proclaimed a People's Republic of China. Then Mao began the familiar technique: purge, consolidate, purge. The addition of China's 400 million to Russia's 200 million was the high tide of world Communism. Stalin's empire occupied a fourth of the world's land surface, claimed a third...
...Karl L. Rankin, charge d'affaires on Formosa, to be Ambassador to the Nationalist Chinese government. In Taipeh, spokesmen for Chiang Kai-shek enthusiastically welcomed the elevation of popular Diplomat Rankin as another sign of a stronger U.S. policy in the Far East...
This week, galvanized by Dwight Eisenhower's order freeing them for action against the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists on Formosa formally abrogated the 1945 treaty with Russia. The act was not a declaration of war against the U.S.S.R., but it meant that Formosa no longer recognized Russia's right to be in Dairen and Port Arthur, or any other Russian rights on the Chinese mainland, and it implied a restoration of the Chinese claim to Outer Mongolia (which, according to the 1945 treaty, was to become an independent nation but which actually has long been...
...that American air and naval power should be used to help Free China's infantry to invade the mainland. My plan is that Free China should acquire enough naval and air power . . . so that [it] can independently invade and liberate the mainland." (On Formosa last week, President Chiang Kai-shek emphasized only that he "will not ask for aid in ground forces...
Bigart found the camp excited about President Eisenhower's deneutralization of Formosa, and hopeful that it meant that they now would be allowed to rejoin Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...