Word: kai-shek
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...wrong for the free nations of the world to recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government? A: "Surely, you don't expect me to be rude to anybody...
Secretary Dulles' resolutions last night have been no more help than the President's calming reassurances. Certainly, the Israelis must return to Israel and fire must cease. But the threat that the General Assembly will stay in session until these things occur is the emptiest one since Chiang Kai-shek intimated that he might reconquer the Chinese mainland...
...Formosa, much the same situation exists. Chiang Kai-Shek is also an old man and his military regime is not producing any long-range political or economic developments. Again there is a feeling of waiting
...century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in the old days, but these projects are considered more plausible because of the Communists' ruthless ability to mobilize whole armies of forced labor...
...inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...