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...unhappy period in the life of a great country." The record, reviewing U.S. relations with China back to 1844, prefaced by a 15-page lawyer's brief by Acheson, and displaying some studied flourishes of erudition, added up to a savage indictment of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Acheson summarized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Early one morning, Chiang Kai-shek's Douglas Skymaster eased down onto the runway of Canton's Milky Way airport. The Gimo, wearing a jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hao, Hao | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Chiang Kai-shek last week emerged from semi-retirement with a statement that contained a few important truths for Americans to ponder. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Few Truths | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Few Truths | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...black Packard with drawn shades stopped before the palaitial brick building that once housed Japan's governor general in Taipei, capital of Formosa. Behind it rolled a Buick convertible full of bodyguards. They stood aside watchfully as , Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek hurried inside the building to confer with his old military pupil, now Formosa's Nationalist governor, greying General Chen Cheng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLAND REDOUBT: ISLAND REDOUBT | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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