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Printed on them are: "Joe McCarthy for Attorney General," "Fred Hartley for Secretary of Labor," "Chaing Kai-Shek for Secretary of State," "John Bricker for Secretary of Commerce...
...have been enthusiastic TIME readers for many years, including several in postwar China until the Bamboo Curtain grew too rigid . . . [But] can you find me anyone who knew anything about China from the inside or outside who did not report in 1948 that "Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was 'tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements'; it had 'lost the heart of the people,' who had turned to Communism as their only hope?" In fact, those are very mild descriptions of the situation, and would be accepted by businessmen, military officers, missionaries and diplomats...
Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas is a well-meaning liberal who has traveled from the Rockies to the Himalayas, stalking the Common Man with cliche and camera. In 1948 he reported that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was "tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements"; it had "lost the heart of the people," who had turned to Communism as their only hope. Last year he urged U.S. recognition of the Chinese Communists. Recognition, said Douglas, would wean the Chinese people and their masters away from Russian domination...
Last week, with Red China firmer in the Russian camp than ever, Justice Douglas was in Formosa, taking a look-see at the Nationalist government, and reversed his earlier judgment. Chiang Kai-shek's government, he said, was doing "a fine and valiant job, not only in its struggle against Communism but in its program of social reconstruction . . . Free China will succeed in its struggle...
...sizable part of the missing millions in Mexico. His local attorney said that Mow would hand the money over to the United Nations or the Mexican government if he could be sure it would be returned to the Chinese people "instead of the pockets of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek." Once Mow was in custody, however, Attorney General Luis Felipe Canudas decided that Mexico had a couple of scores to settle first with the high-living general: illegal entry, and use of stolen funds to buy Mexican property. Added Canudas: "We are holding Agnes Kelly, his secretary-we have to have...