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...Tragedy in Formosa" [TIME, July 17], I get the impression that it is again time for the U.S. to make an all-out effort to support the Chinese Nationalists. Yet, if I am not mistaken, very poor use was made of the American aid that was sent to Chiang Kai-shek when the Nationalists were still in a strong position on the Chinese mainland...
...three of his reports from this area as by-line stories. They were: an account of the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines (July 3); an indictment of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa (July 17); a report on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s views on issues of major interest to the U.S. (July 24). In addition to weekly copy and guidance for TIME Inc.'s editors, Osborne has also sent along some incidental personal impressions of the scene he is viewing for the first time. Some of them follow...
Meanwhile, Hsia Tou-yin, warlord of Wu's native Hupeh province, had given Wu a job as tax collector. Wu went to work in Hankow, "the Chicago of China," and within six months had balanced Hankow's municipal budget. This achieve ment attracted Chiang Kai-shek's interested attention. In 1932 Chiang appointed the 28-year-old Wu mayor of Hankow...
...faults it had suffered before, but the realization-always bracing to strong men -of having to make a last-ditch stand had purged the Nationalists. Above all they were removed, if only 100 miles across the Straits of Formosa, from the Reds' corrosive power. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitter foes concede that his government on Formosa is better than any Nationlist government of the past. Formosa (for 50 years brutally but efficiently ruled by the Japanese) is orderly, clean and prosperous looking. Over the neat towns and the green hills there seems to blow a breeze...
Last week, preparing for action, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reshuffled his government, dissolved the Kuomintang...