Word: kaies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Loaded down with strong opinions after his fleeting (18-day) guided tour of Communist China, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall on the public ear. "The sooner we get rid of Chiang Kai-shek and his troops, the better it will be," said the 71-year-old Labor Party chieftain, who hopes soon again to govern Britain...
...last week, a sort of human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn; dropped out of the clouds for a brief visit with Dwight Eisenhower in Denver; read a detective story in mid-Pacific and slept seraphically across the Atlantic...
Largely at the insistence of Britain, the pact did not include Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa. But this exclusion was, in effect, a good point for the U.S. it left the U.S. free to take its own independent action in connection with Formosa, which it has long recognized as its special responsibility. To make this point clear, Secretary Dulles flew from Manila to Formosa, rode up Grass Mountain to the residence of Chiang Kaishek. There Dulles assured the Nationalist Chinese President that his people did not stand alone. Said Dulles: "The United States is proud to stand by those...
Lonely Island. Three divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's troops, plus supporting units-about 50,000 men in all-are stationed on Quemoy. They have U.S. rifles, machine guns and mortars, U.S. 105-and 155-mm. howitzers and two airfields big enough for transports, but not for jets. Quemoy's peasants are a stoical lot who sit outside their baked-mud huts in the evenings, slapping at clouds of mosquitoes-and ready to dive for slit trenches if the Communist artillery opens...
Hong Kong Impressions. Attlee and most British Socialists have never entirely believed that the Chinese Communists are real Communists; they regard them as the product of a genuine popular revolt against Chiang Kai-shek's government, and believe that much of Red China's hostility comes from the U.S. refusal to grant it recognition. At a press conference in Hong Kong, Attlee admitted that his "impressions" had not much changed. But the man who had said he knew eyewash when he saw it professed not to have been taken in: "We found, and expected to find, that China...