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...this perilous situation, a familiar voice sounded around the world last week with calculated bluntness. Said Douglas MacArthur: turn Chiang Kai-shek's forces on Formosa loose to open a second front on China's mainland. In a letter to Republican Minority Leader Joe Martin, MacArthur wrote bitterly: "My views and recommendations have been submitted to Washington in most complete detail. It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Letter From Tokyo | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...pronounced MacArthur's letter the "most dangerous" of an "apparently unending series of indiscretions." British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, who only a week before had announced that this was the psychological moment to seek a negotiated settlement, complained formally to the State Department against any unleashing of Chiang Kai-shek's forces. The French added their protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Letter From Tokyo | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...political advantage but cannot fail to clean up the political atmosphere, he has rid the Government and the United Nations of an agent whose political pronouncements have been a continuous source of embarrassment and danger. General MacArthur's strong views on Communism, on the "Asiatic mind," on Chiang Kai-Shek, and on practically everything else, were enough, as the President noted, to make the General "unable to give his whole support" to the United Nations campaign in Korea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bravery on the Home Front | 4/11/1951 | See Source »

History Professor Nieh Chung-chi: "I once signed my name to an open letter asking for American aid to China . . . Now I realize that I wanted to assist Chiang Kai-shek in murdering the people of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: My Soul to the Devil | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...former Nationalist officials who went over to the Communists two years ago in the hope that Mao Tse-tung would give them a "more liberal" government. The irony of their plight is that while the Communist government has been steadily disclosing itself to be a Communist government, Chiang Kai-shek's government on Formosa has made some progress toward 20th Century liberal polity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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