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...removed nor re-elected by voters. Accountable mainly to themselves, awaiting the "return to the mainland" that does not come, they have little to do; the provincial government of Formosa deals with most day-to-day governing. They have little voice; the 15-man Standing Committee of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Party decides government policies without consulting them. Result: lawmakers have tended increasingly to bolt party discipline, attack Chiang's ministers...
...politics-conscious people on Formosa agreed that the political atmosphere was more tense than at any time in years. The legislators showed no signs of backing down in their campaign for more authority, despite Chiang Kai-shek's pleas to avoid rocking the boat. In some quarters there were even mutterings about trying to form an opposition to the Kuomintang. But nowhere in the grumbling was there any threat to bolt Chiang's leadership in foreign policy or to try to make a deal with the mainland Reds. It was an internal squabble that Chiang would have...
...provides the military hardware and meets half the military payroll. The press is effectively controlled, and any threat of internal subversion by the Chinese Communists is kept well in hand by the zealous (some say too zealous) security police called the Peace Preservation Corps. Stern and 70, Chiang Kai-shek rules party, army and people as firmly as ever...
Dean Acheson last night advocated eventual termination of American support of the government of Chiang Kai-Shek and acceptance of the Red Chinese government in the United Nations. He said that "a possible loss of prestige accompanying this action should not inhibit a policy change if continuation of the policy is likely to involve an even greater loss...
This year stubborn, aging (69) Chiang Kai-shek could point to rumblings of revolt inside Red China, noted with grim defiance: "The question of material requirements, including manpower and other considerations, is not a major deterrent. What is more serious is that there seems to be a lack of self-confidence among some of us. There is a tendency to magnify the difficulty of achieving a final victory...