Word: kai-shek
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...well as most of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's unseated Kuomintang chiefs...
...best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
...with Production. Formosa's surprising success is, of course, largely due to the $3 billion in economic and military aid that the U.S. has poured in since 1949 under the watchful eye of the Chiang Kai-shek government. But unlike the sorry case in many other underdeveloped areas, U.S. aid to Formosa has been dispensed wisely and put to work intelligently. Formosa's gross national product has been growing at the rate of 7.7% a year, and industrial production is up 11% from last year. Per capita income has been rising, and so has consumer buying...
...rocky island of Tungyin, 50 miles off the coast of Red China, is the headquarters of a little-known military unit called the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army. The secret army, 30,000 strong, is Chiang Kai-shek's instrument for the long-promised return to the mainland. The troops are trained as guerrillas, armed with U.S. weapons, and come largely from the mainland coastal provinces...
Then Chiang Kai-shek sets off the nationalist revolution. Step by step the ship and her crew are isolated, humiliated by loss of their work coolies, shocked by the knowledge that they are helpless. They degenerate into snarling rival groups, capable of rioting over a few onions, capable of murder...