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Among the ailing and convalescing: Madame Chiang Kai-shek flew from her temporary home in Formosa to Honolulu for treatment of neurodermatitis, a nervous condition which causes severe itching. "Very tired and weak," she retired to the home of her sister Mme. H. H. Kung until hospital accommodations could be arranged. The Duke of Windsor was recovering in Montecatini, Italy, from a "slight attack of indigestion" diagnosed by his doctor as the result of "too many invitations in this heat." He was ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats...
...Leader. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang resent the notion that they are living in exile. Taipei, they insist, is simply the provisional capital of China, just as Chungking was during World War II. Although Chiang's vast domain has shrunk to a mere 14,000 square miles, his icy dignity has, if anything, increased. Nobody is now, or ever was, on back-slapping terms with Chiang. At 65, he lives a Spartan life, eats sparingly, and neither drinks nor smokes...
...still not prepared to use Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa-based forces as a threat to Red China's flank. In Washington last week Admiral Arthur Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, reported that U.S. arms aid to Chiang is "disappointingly slow...
...exercise, smiled indulgently as a rider in a wig and tricornered hat arrived on his way to warn Lexington the British were coming. He kept right on smiling as a band of anti-Taft Harvard students hoisted placards proclaiming a Taft cabinet: Joe McCarthy for Attorney General, Chiang Kai-shek as Secretary of State, General MacArthur as Secretary of Defense, Fred Hartley (of Taft-Hartley) as Secretary of Labor, and Ohio's Senator John Bricker as Secretary of Commerce...
Then a number of signs were quickly raised in the audience. Roy Gootenberg, teaching fellow in Government, held a sign saying, "If you are elected, will this be your cabinet?" Other placards said, General Douglas MacArthur, Secretary of Defense; Chiang Kai-Shek, Secretary of State, and Senator Joe McCarthy, Atterney General...