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Iron & Steel. What little Snow finds bad in New China he justifies by presuming that it would be much worse if Chiang Kai-shek were in charge. Promising later discussions that never materialize, he skims over the regime's faults to exult in its virtues...
...retreat in suburban Taipei, the Republic of China's venerable President Chiang Kai-shek passed his 75th birthday in quiet seclusion. The still spry Gimo requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...
Across the Formosa Strait, meanwhile, a somewhat better-known woman figured prominently in the Nationalists' celebration of Double Ten Day, marking the Oct. 10, 1911. uprising against the Man-chus. At the offices of Taiwan Television Enterprise. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pressed a control button with an elegantly gloved finger to inaugurate commercial television on the island. Formosa is starting out with 3,000 sets and four channels, a telling testimonial to the island's prosperity...
...across from the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy. The Reds have had heavy troop concentrations along the Formosa Strait for years, but by last week they had added an estimated 100,000 men, raising the total to about 450,000. Belligerently, Red China claimed that Chiang Kai-shek was "preparing for an invasion" of the mainland "with the support and encouragement" of the U.S. Blared the official Chinese Communist news agency: "All right, let them come...
...about it to the press, it also provided a frontpage diversion from the troubled economy. More significantly, on Red China's part, talk of an unlikely invasion from Formosa was a big smoke screen that diverted the masses from China's domestic troubles and upheavals. For Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, amphibious exercises by Nationalist troops and the calling up of reservists kept green his often repeated promise of returning in triumph to the mainland...