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...have been many and varied answers, some old, some recent, some true, some wrong, some regretted. From an old U.S. China hand: "A sort of Chinese Talleyrand." From a fellow-traveling Indian diplomat: "A second Nehru!" From a onetime kingpin in the Chinese Communist movement: "A Chinese Molotov." Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have called him "a reasonable Communist." General George Marshall once spoke of him with "friendship and esteem" and thought him a man of his word...
...Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
...became commander in chief in the Far East in May 1952, the U.S. Government had given up the idea of a military victory in Korea. Mark Clark passionately believed that such faintheartedness had to be banished, that bases and airfields beyond the Yalu should be bombed, and that Chiang Kai-shek's offer of Formosa divisions ought to be accepted. He said as much. Clark believed that the result would not be World War III but a powerful brake on Communist aggression everywhere...
With foaming indignation, the government of Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa gave its answer to K. C. Wu, the onetime governor of Formosa who last week bombarded Chiang's regime with charges of one-man, one-party domination and of autocracy bordering on tyranny (TIME, March...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek formally ousted Wu as a Minister Without Portfolio in the Nationalist regime, bringing to an end 22 years' association in the turbulent ups & downs of Chinese politics...