Word: kai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, preparing for action, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reshuffled his government, dissolved the Kuomintang...
GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek receives no correspondents and grants no interviews. However, his views on issues of major interest are well known in Taipei-partly through Chinese officials who have his ear, partly through public statements, such as a speech on the Soviet role in Asia delivered July 3. From these and other sources the following summary of the Generalissimo's current views on questions of vital interest to the U.S. was obtained last week...
...questions and no difficulties in this connection will arise if U.S. relationships with Nationalist China are placed in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur. The Generalissimo has unlimited confidence in MacArthur and would be happy to place the fate of Formosa and of Nationalist China in his hands. Chiang Kai-shek takes this attitude because he believes that MacArthur understands the nature of Communism in Asia; in particular he understands the nature and threat of Chinese Communism and the part that the Chinese Communists are playing for the Soviet Union in Asia. Therefore, it is of the first importance that...
...Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
...sharply left from his father's position as an independent critic of both the Nationalists and the Communists. After Red troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began demanding Formosa's "liberation" from Chiang Kai-shek's "henchmen." The Review's version of life in the U.S. became a red-and-pink patchwork quilt, sewn together from such dependably left-wing sources as the speeches of Howard Fast and George Seldes' news letter In Fact. Wrote the Review: "The United States...