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Only a year ago, K. C. Wu was Nationalist China's bright, particular star. He was an outspoken advocate of democracy among the Kuomintang's quarreling cliques, an honest official among many who were not. Chiang Kai-shek himself had picked able Administrator Wu as the governor of Formosa...
France, and so long as I hold that office, it is for me to interpret French opinion." Now Dulles was alarming U.S. allies in Asia (Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek), and risking the displeasure of many Americans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in agreeing to talk about Indo-China...
After a seemly show of reluctance, aging (66), indomitable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek consented to succeed himself as President. All interest then focused on Chiang's choice for Vice President: he would be, in effect, Chiang's choice as his successor, and the man who would automatically succeed him if Chiang should die in office. Chiang's own choice: Premier Chen Cheng...
...teacher's son, Chen was born 56 years ago in Chekiang province. He attended the Paoting Military Academy, met Chiang Kai-shek in the early '203 and has been a trusted lieutenant and devoted friend ever since. During the wars against Japan and the Communists, he held important military commands (including chief of staff to Chiang in 1946-48); not even his foes ever accused him of the slightest personal corruption. He is polite, considerate and sincere, but his geniality is not softness. Once he had an army driver executed at the very spot in downtown Taipei where...
There is now the danger of a loss like the reversal suffered in China when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government fell. Although the U.S. was sending him supplies of arms, Chiang was unable to hold control of his troops long enough to make a good try at stopping the Red flood. The difficulties that besieged the Chinese Nationalists are not completely parallel to those in Indo-China, but American expectation that military aid will solve the problem is the same...