Word: kai-shek
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...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...
...Navy's Seventh Fleet* "to prevent any attack on Formosa." Thus if the Korean invasion was a feint and a prelude to a Chinese Communist attack on Formosa, the U.S. would be there to block it. In exchange for this protection, Harry Truman called on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government to cease provocative bombardment of the Communist-held mainland...
...eleven-day running battle, Chiang Kai-shek's airmen machine-gunned and bombed the blockade-running ships, strewed clusters of floating mines in their path. Last week Hong Kong's merchants gave up, for the time being stopped further shipments to Red ports. The Nationalists' score: three ships sunk, two ships damaged, one ship captured. The casualties included vessels flying the British, Panamanian, Norwegian and Greek flags. By week's end more mines sighted in the Formosa straits caused the Communists to close the port of Shanghai to all shipping...
...suffering, on a lesser scale, the ruinous kind of civil war which won China for Communism. The Mao Tse-tung of the Indo-Chinese is a frail, but enduring comrade, who looks like a shriveled wizard; his nom de guerre is Ho Chi Minh (or One Who Shines). Chiang Kai-shek has no counterpart in Indo-China. The initial brunt of the Red attack has been borne by French soldiers. Meanwhile, the job of rallying native anti-Communist forces falls mainly on the meaty shoulders of the Emperor Bao Dai (or Guardian of Greatness), who now bears the official title...
...Nationalists on Formosa are also renewing their hope of military aid. Chiang Kai-shek's formula: "The U.S. should match the forms of aid given to the Communists by Soviet Russia. We do not expect more than what the Soviet is giving." This would imply everything up to jet planes manned by American pilots, since the Russians now provide them for the Chinese Communists...