Word: kai-shek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Burma's ineffectual government, unable to control rebel Karen tribes and armed bands of local Communists, was also disturbed last week by the presence in Burma of remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's troops, led by General Li Mi. Defeated by the Communists in 1949, the Nationalist soldiers fled into Burma, last year made an unsuccessful foray into China's Yunnan Province. They now number about 10,000 men. Said Burma's U.N. Delegate U Myint Thein: "We are doing all we can to get them out of the country, but every time our troops...
...State Department denounced the charge for the nonsense that it is. The U.S. has no soldiers with Li Mi's army, has twice asked Formosa to quit supplying it with arms. Chiang Kai-shek's government insists that Li Mi is independent of them, and "we have no intention of making Burma a military base of any kind." Yet last week Li Mi himself was reported in Formosa, where he had flown on Christmas...
...rules for organizations. To the Housemasters, and later to Dean Bender, for clinging to the seven o'clock deadline on women guests. To the Republican party's experts on the Far East for their quixotic, bombastic, and highly vulnerable songs of praise to the Formosan leader, Chiang Kai-shek. To the dependable legislators of Massachusetts, for their yearly playful attempts to legislate Communism out of people's minds. To Coach Loyld Jordan, for repeated efforts to clarify his position on why big football is good football. To the Cambridge police, for their absurd insistence on towing away student's cars...
...could not agree whether China meant Peking or Formosa, the decision was left to Japan. Last week Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida made known his choice. In a letter to Dulles, he wrote that Japan wants "a treaty which will re-establish normal relations" with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. As for Red China: "The Japanese government has no intention to conclude a bilateral treaty with the Communist regime of China...
...political activities subversive to peace and order" and chucked them out of the colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review, semi-official organ of Hong Kong's financiers, editorially reflected the new boldness: "Formosa must remain [a citadel] until Peking can be made . . . less aggressive . . ." said the Review. "Chiang Kai-shek's prestige is recovering. He is now looked upon as an ally of considerable value...