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...constantly put in the position of having to support a no-good general in Laos or a 1920's militarist like Chiang Kai-Shek," a noted historian claimed yesterday, describing the dilemma of U.S. policy toward shaky strong-man governments in the Far East...
Burmese indignation was only indirectly with the U.S. and mainly with the Nationalist Chinese. For eleven years, the presence of Chiang Kai-shek forces marooned in north Burma after the Communist take-over of the Chinese mainland has angered the Burmese. Last month troops were sent up to clean out these Kuomintang irregulars. Overrunning a Kuomintang headquarters, the Burmese found U.S.-made ammunition and boxes branded with the International Cooperation Administration symbol of two clasped hands. The Burmese press ran pictures of the boxes, and the public took reproachful note...
...losing the debate on representation, Ambassador Stevenson could validly argue that the question belonged in the U.N.'s "important" category, requiring a two-thirds majority. Such a move might well stir up neutralist efforts to allow both Chinese governments in the U.N.-a prospect that equally horrifies Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, but has plenty of U.N. backing in the Afro-Asian bloc...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose Harvard accent is known to have impressed former President Truman, has now made a speech urging in effect that the United States pull the rug out from under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
...from land, sea and air-approaches the ideal in rock-like anti-Communist strength. The crack, U.S.-trained Nationalist air force is, for its particular mission, as good as any in the world. The U.S. could move air support swiftly into Formosa's big, excellent airfields. Chiang Kai-shek's 450,000-man army has been pared down and streamlined. And the 32,000-man navy is constantly drilling and redrilling in methods of supplying Quemoy and Matsu...