Word: kai-shek
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...Chiang Kai-shek last week emerged from semi-retirement with a statement that contained a few important truths for Americans to ponder. Among them...
Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement...
...black Packard with drawn shades stopped before the palaitial brick building that once housed Japan's governor general in Taipei, capital of Formosa. Behind it rolled a Buick convertible full of bodyguards. They stood aside watchfully as , Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek hurried inside the building to confer with his old military pupil, now Formosa's Nationalist governor, greying General Chen Cheng...
...discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even his adventures with a refugee Russian girl and with his boss's wife have...
...surprising about it. Everyone who understands the situation in China and the Far East has seen the move coming for more than two years. The people who cry now that the U. S. is responsible exhibit a complete failure to study the lesson which must be learned from Chiang Kai-Shek's costly fiasco...