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What about Nationalist China? "I am for defending Formosa because it seems a clear case. We should tell the Communists to stay out and see that they do." Would he encourage Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland? He thought...
...because he opposes the administration consistently and has the prestige among his Republican colleagues to make these political opinions felt. Taft balked at sending aid to Europe, opposed the Atlautie Pact, fought the nomination of David E. Lilienthal as Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, advocated renewed aid to Europe Kai-Shek and the defense of Formosa, and suggested, when the name of General George O. Marshall was before the Senate for confirmation as Secretary of Defense, that the General had shown himself frequently prepared to sell out to Communists. His record has not only stimulated the opposition of Democrats...
...instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended against the Chinese Communists. No one who knew Harry Truman had any idea whether the eloquent MacArthur had persuaded his Commander in Chief, in their tête-à-tête on Wake, that he had better face the fact: Formosa...
...Wellesley alumnae started the Institute in honor of Madame Chiang Kai Shek, and alumna, to provide information about the Orient...
There was no mention at this round-table meeting of Chiang Kai-shek or Indo-China. MacArthur did most of the talking, and did so, said Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross, "magnificently." The meeting took exactly two hours...