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...Kennedy last week authorized the immediate entry of 5,000 Hong Kong Chinese-they will not be new refugees from over the border, but skilled and educated Chinese from an already processed list of 19,000 who have been waiting for years for U.S. visas. On Formosa, President Chiang Kai-shek ordered that all refugees who wanted to come to Formosa be admitted, after political screening...
...more than a decade, the morale of Formosa's 2,000,000 Chinese Nationalists has been nourished by the hope that one day they will return to their homeland only 90 miles away across the Formosa Strait. To achieve this goal, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has kept his powerful army and air force in tiptop shape, and devoured intelligence reports from the mainland. Last week, in a speech celebrating Youth Day, in bustling, prosperous Taipei, he said: "The situation both at home and abroad is such that we can no longer passively wait and see if something will happen...
Steen said that there was some anti-Americanism in Norway because "it is very easy to agitate against America." He cited U.S. support of Chiang Kai-Shek and Franco, the integration problem, and McCarthyism as issues which are used to attack the United States. "Little Rock is very well known in Norway," he added...
...latter...because it is combined with democracy, and with a measure of personal liberty." Nonetheless, he did not shy from outspoken criticism of many American policies and beliefs. The United State, he argued, forced the Chinese to accept Communism by leaving them no other alternative to the "corrupt" Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, he roundly attacked McCarthyism on countless occasions...
...China, insisted Zorin. "has the right to carry through the liquidation of the Chiang Kai-shek clique by peaceful means and with the use of armed force, and that is within its exclusive competence and nobody else's." In fact, Zorin harped so much on Peking's "right" to wage a shooting war that he plainly did his argument more harm than good, and some listeners began to wonder if Russia were really eager to have Red China seated. At any rate, Zorin's intemperate approach made the U.S.'s reply all the more convincing...