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...beach as fast as an aging correspondent in blue button-down collar, British slacks and a pair of loose loafers could sprint." Three days later, airlifted off Quemoy by a Nationalist plane that took off under the nose of Communist guns, Bell was in Formosa learning from President Chiang Kai-shek in an exclusive interview that the U.S. Navy would convoy Nationalist supply vessels to Quemoy. Fast as his loafers could carry him, he sprinted aboard Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley's Seventh Fleet flagship Helena to accompany the first U.S. daylight escort to Quemoy. For the product...
...imperialists." But simultaneously, Premier Chou En-lai announced that, "to settle the Sino-American dispute in the Taiwan area . . . the Chinese government is prepared to resume ambassador-level talks [with the U.S.]." Furthermore, added Chou, Peking had "voluntarily" decided to suspend bombardment of the offshore islands "to give Chiang Kai-shek's troops a chance for reflection...
...response evoked sighs of relief. But one stern voice continued to remind the world that if Peking had indeed decided to loosen the screws for the time being, it would surely tighten them again one day. Asked what he thought Red intentions in the Formosa Strait really were, Chiang Kai-shek replied: "Their ultimate intention is to seize Taiwan...
...under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with Matsu and a handful of other islets to the north-constitute the only indisputably Chinese soil remaining in Nationalist hands. To hold these largely symbolic specks Chiang Kai-shek has crammed them with 95,000 troops...
Died. Kaung Zang-tze, 73, Methodist bishop in Red China, longtime minister who in 1930 baptized Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into the Christian faith; of pneumonia; in Shanghai. In 1949 when the Communist regime took over, Kaung Zang-tze refused to flee Peking, saying his duty was to stay and look after the Christian population...