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...memorandum to the State Department on U.S. policy in Asia (see INTERNATIONAL). At the hearing, he testified that the whole question raised by McCarthy actually got down to an argument over the best course for the U.S. to follow in the Far East. After restating his opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, he urged one of two courses: 1) encourage Chinese nationalism even though it be Communist nationalism, in the hope of making a Tito out of Mao or preferably 2) "encourage in every possible way conditions that will make possible the survival of a so-called...
...Formosa, the traveler reported, he had found Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government still riddled with the same old feuds and mutual distrusts. He had found the U.S.-backed government of Southern Korea dictatorial and incompetent; Indonesia, harboring 2,000,000 Chinese, threatened by inflation, pervaded by a sense of hopelessness; the Philippines in economic difficulties, harassed by Red guerrillas...
Last week, in Formosa's capital of Taipei, Chiang Kai-shek formally resumed his position as President of Nationalist China. Chiang ascended a barren platform in the red brick government headquarters, nodded unblinkingly to an assembly of 200 of Nationalist China's remaining leaders-cabinet members, generals, governors of China's lost provinces and four former mayors of Shanghai. "At this critical moment," came the clipped tones of the Gimo's native Chekiang, "I cannot shirk my responsibility." He added optimistically: "I do not have any doubt that we will recover the mainland, that the Communists...
...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
Poetry came to Cheng's mind again as he and McNeil chain-smoked each other's cigarettes-the Chinese offering American Lucky Strikes from a woven-grass case. Between puffs, Cheng sadly recalled how once it was the Western fashion to praise Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China for resisting the Japanese. What was it Shakespeare's Mark Antony had said over murdered Caesar...