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...second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times" book review, "When we fail to bargain with Chiang Kai-shek and extract from his regime the long-promised reforms which alone can cut the ground from under Chinese communism, and which were implied would be prerequisite to our aid, were seem stupid, and our audience in Asia realizes we can be manipulated by our fears...
Reinforced by American military aid, the nationalist armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek are currently grinding down the resistance of Chinese Communists in a grim civil war for the control of China. Ostensibly, Chiang will introduce a progressive, democratic government when China emerges from the maelstrom. Taken in by slick Chungking double-talk of a new freedom for China, the United States has actively supported the Kuomintang government not only in hopes of destroying feudalism in China, but also of checking the spread of Communist influence in Asia. In its zeal, however, to boost China into the twentieth century...
...Benedict Arnold of the Chinese Revolution," Yuan Shih-kai became Provisional President of the Chinese Republic in March 1912. The next year he disrupted the Assembly called to draft a permanent constitution, outlawed the Kuomintang Party and established himself as dictator. In 1915 Yuan restored the monarchy with himself as Emperor, but was forced to renounce the throne a few months later...
Chen Chi-Mai, who holds a Ph.D. from Columbia, was teaching public law in China at the outbreak of the Japanese War in 1937, when he was asked by the government to head the executive council of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 1944, he was appointed Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. He attended the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences as a member of the Chinese delegation, and is now China's representative to UNRRA and to the Emergency Food Committee...
Speaking on the topic "What Is the Solution in China?" will be Chen Chi-Mai, counsellor to the Chinese Embassy and wartime assistant to Chiang Kai-Shek, and John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History. The Forum will be moderated by Warren A. Seavey '01, Bussey Professor of Law and formerly head of the law school at Pei Yang University in China...