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GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK appears this week on TIME'S cover for the tenth time-oftener than any other living man. Only the Generalissimo's archenemy, the late JOSEPH STALIN, had been a TIME cover subject so often. Runners-up: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, nine times; former PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN, SIR WINSTON CHUCHILL, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR and the late FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, eight each...
...among the foxes of the world, Chiang Kai-shek long ago found the hedgehog's one big thing: the world's primary and implacable enemy was and is the Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who wanted him to fight Japanese instead of Communists), in the 1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were...
...President of Nationalist China will hear no talk of settling down on a neutralized Formosa. Chiang Kai-shek does not believe this is one of the possibilities open to him or to the world, no matter how much well-intentioned diplomats try to bring off a settlement. On this basic point he and his Communist enemy (to judge by the enemy's words) are in complete agreement...
Formosa is not as politically free as the Philippines or Japan, but it is freer than South Korea. The press can and does criticize, so long as it does not appear to Chiang Kai-shek as obstructing the national effort or damaging the prestige of the government. After all, Chiang reminds critics...
From Chiang Kai-shek the U.S. Government has had clear notice that the Nationalists will defend Matsu and Quemoy at all cost. On-the-spot military observers give Chiang little or no hope of holding the offshore islands against Red invasion without U.S. intervention. Matsu, although farther from the mainland "than Quemoy, is considered more vulnerable because of its small size (roughly 7 sq. mi.). On Matsu Chiang has one regular division, all the troops (10,000) the island will accommodate efficiently. Dug in on Quemoy's 70 sq. mi. are about 50,000 Nationalist regulars, one-fifth...