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...hackneyed "eternal triangle" is "scarcely more unendurable than the phrase," and take special pains to blister John Foster Dulles for his "journalese": "It was not some petty, pretentious scribbler who invented 'massive retaliation' and 'agonizing reappraisal' or spoke of 'unleashing' Chiang Kai-shek...
When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland to Formosa in 1949, only four diplomatic missions followed him-the U.S., the Philippines. Korea and France. Since then, though there has been a constant clamor to oust Chiang and to seat Communist China in the U.N., only 18 non-Communist nations have recognized the Red regime in Peking. But 44 nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt...
SOVIET RUSSIA IN CHINA (392 pp.]-Chiang Kai-shek - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...first step toward an eventual reversal of Washington's "tough China" policy-a step which the Peking-style China Lobby will do its best to stretch into diplomatic recognition of the Peking regime, its seating in the United Nations and the consequent downgrading of the Chiang Kai-shek government...
...Taipei on Formosa. Kishi was met by a crowd of more than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...