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Vast Monolith. Today, of course, it is part of the conventional wisdom that it was Chiang Kai-shek and his coterie of corrupt politicians and generals who "lost" China. But in the '50s, distinctions were not so easy to draw. Most Americans admired Chiang as a hero-and in many respects he was. Convinced of Nationalist China's democratic policies, the public saw the Generalissimo as a leader in the Western tradition and was moved by memories of his fight against Imperial Japan. The foreign left seemed a vast, threatening monolith. Given this new climate of fear...
Your article on President Chiang Kai-shek's death [April 14] must have contained truth and insight, but I could not read it. Every TIME in Taiwan had that page torn out. It must have hit home...
...student at the Toilers of the East University in Moscow. Next he went to China. After Chiang Kai-shek turned on the Communists and drove them underground in 1927, Ho spent the next 13 years shuttling between Moscow and China-with stopovers in Chiang's prisons. Behind bars, Ho honed his talent for writing poetry and began developing an avuncular manner that carefully masked his guile and ruthlessness. On occasion he would betray rival nationalist leaders to the French police and then donate the reward to the party...
...bygones, apparently, are bygones. Last month, while the two men were flying to the funeral of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, the Vice President invited the Senator to breakfast. As their two-hour conversation drew to an end, Rockefeller asked bluntly: "Why did you vote against me?" Just as bluntly, Goldwater replied that at the time he had been trying to be re-elected to the Senate in Arizona, and "I found you're not very popular out there." "I thought that was it," said Rockefeller. "Thank you very much." The two men shook hands...
...TIME'S correspondents in Saigon, the public apprehension and spidery, semisecret political maneuvering that followed President Thieu's resignation last week had a certain grim familiarity. To Roy Rowan, the scene was eerily reminiscent of Shanghai in 1949 during the collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek regime which he covered for LIFE. "The same gnawing fear that gripped Shanghai has taken hold in Saigon," Rowan cabled last week. "You saw the same scenes: inflation requiring shopping bags full of paper money, wailing police sirens, and the endless debate among correspondents about whether to stay or leave...