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...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
...President, have you given any personal assurance or made any commitment to Chiang Kai-shek that we would help defend Quemoy and Matsu if those islands were attacked...
...Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable job of chauffeur for the French government in Saigon gave him more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World War II, he deserted the French and sold his talents...
...Murrow only if questions were submitted in advance, then arrived at his Rangoon rendezvous with Murrow and camera crew willing to answer only ten of them. (Among the many subjects he declined to discuss: U.S. prisoners in China, Titoism, Peking's offer of a governmental post to Chiang Kai-shek.) Murrow & Co., and viewers as well, were fortunate that Chou did not answer more. He sat, solemn, humorless and tired-looking, acting like a man who was far from being his own master. Though he understands English well, Chou insisted on reading his answers in mechanical Chinese...
JANUARY. Parietal hours will be reduced by the Administrative Board. They will explain, "These are hectic times." Chiang Kai-shek will accept the position of Recreation Director with the Chinese People's Republic. Tom Dewey will refuse to comment upon his future plans while his wife paints campaign buttons and he brings his golf game down to the eighties...