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...chart a realistic and honorable settlement. No statements about hope for peace--no matter how much they reassure the United States public and ease the immediate crisis--can cover up basic contradictions in U.S. Far Eastern policy. For the United States is at once attempting to support Chiang Kai-shek militarily, to keep the Western alliance together, and to negotiate a "modus vivendi"--to use the President phrase--with Communist China...
...continuing question of "Who Lost China" would indicate that some change has taken place in Asia; yet present policy seems to ignore the fact that Chiang Kai shek no longer rules over 500,000,000 Chinese. Like the ostrich who tries to wish away unpleasant facts by burying his head in the sand, the U.S. stubbornly continues to recognize the Nationalists as the government of China. Unfortunately the revolution is over, and Mao Tse-Tung has implanted in China a ruthless but stable regime. Almost every Asian expert--from professors to State Department advisers to private observers--agrees that...
...Finland that the Aruba's mission "could not fail to evoke the disapproval of the free world." The Finnish government insisted that the Aruba was a privately owned ship under charter to a firm in Hong Kong-the principal Hong Kong company used by the Chinese Reds. Chiang Kai-shek vowed to seize the ship as soon as she came within range of his guns or planes. A detachment of five U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, steamed into the Singapore roadstead on what was in fact a routine visit; whereupon the Red Chinese radio began to crackle...
...hold such resounding titles as commander in chief of the First War Zone, commander in chief of the Chinese Expedition to Burma, and finally commander in chief of the Chinese Army. He became a full general, and a member of the Kuomintang's powerful Central Executive Committee. Chiang Kai-shek was so delighted with him that he renamed a town in Wei's honor-an honor that no other living Chinese has received...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK (382 pp.)-Emily Hahn-Doubleday...