Word: kai-shek
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...Defending General George Marshall's ill-fated attempt to make peace between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists in 1945-46, Truman declared, "Hurley and Wedemeyer led me to think that they believed" in the possibility of collaboration between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists. Replied General Albert Wedemeyer, former U.S. commander in the China Theater: "This is not correct, speaking for myself...
...several months, rumors that the Chinese Nationalists and the Red Chinese were about to get together have swept the Far East. The rumors suited the Chinese Reds fine. Premier Chou Enlai, in private talks with foreign visitors, no longer talked of "traitor" Chiang Kai-shek and his "clique," but indicated blandly that he would welcome negotiations with Chiang himself. He even hinted that Chiang Kai-shek would be offered the title of marshal if only he would give...
...voluntarily granted freedom to India. [But] if they had tried to remain in India . . . they would have been swept out by the Indian people just as the Chinese people have expelled from China the colonialists of every shade and color, and together with them the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek clique." (The applause at this point was officially described as "stormy...
Knowing all this, Chiang Kai-shek nonetheless was content with his stand. "I only did my duty as called for by righteousness." he told U.S. reporters at Taipei. The Formosans see themselves as having in the past year made many humiliating retreats under pressure (Tachens, Nanchi) because their powerful U.S. ally had the final say in military matters. But in the U.N., on the subject of Outer Mongolia, was a chance to make a stand, even in principled defiance of the U.S.. and that defiance was a source of satisfaction. In Hong Kong an old Chinese proverb was quoted...
...paper dragon, Nationalist China still plans to use her veto for the first time in ten years in order to block the admission of 18 new members to the United Nations. This decision is known to have been taken despite two direct appeals from President Eisenhower to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. It has been taken, moreover, in the face of the clear wish of virtually every other country in the UN that the 18 new members, including Outer Mongolia, be admitted to the world organization...