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...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
Poetry came to Cheng's mind again as he and McNeil chain-smoked each other's cigarettes-the Chinese offering American Lucky Strikes from a woven-grass case. Between puffs, Cheng sadly recalled how once it was the Western fashion to praise Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China for resisting the Japanese. What was it Shakespeare's Mark Antony had said over murdered Caesar...
China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist irregulars would be established in the rugged Tibetan border province of Sikang; 3) the Nationalist capital would move to Taipei on the island redoubt of Formosa...
When Nationalist authorities whiffed the brewing plot, they promptly ordered CNAC (China National Aviation Corp.) and CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads of pilots and crewmen chose instead to slip off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...