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...late. Frank Church of Idaho, a liberal who had always supported foreign aid, renounced it in an emotional speech. Freshman Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida added his voice of dissent; others, too, joined in. The humiliating diplomatic rebuff suffered by the U.S. only a few days before, when Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese government-in-exile had been chucked out of the U.N. in spite of energetic American lobbying, still rankled. The last Senate speaker was Harry Byrd Jr. of Virginia. His final words: "Mr. President, I shall vote against this bill...
...August 1965 that only the richest country in the world [the U.S.] could come to the help of the poorest [China]. As for Taiwan, I think mainland China and Formosa agreed long ago that Taiwan would become part of Mao's China after the death of Chiang Kai-shek...
...last week began, the U.S. side was fairly confident. Chow Shu-kai, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, told a reporter: "We are confident we will win." Rogers reckoned that the U.S. could squeak through the crucial roll call with a slim two-vote margin...
...speakers' rostrum at Bush, Iraqi Ambassador Talib El-Shi-bib mockingly suggested that if the U.S. still wanted to save a seat for Chiang Kaishek, "it is very welcome to take him and put him in place of the American delegation." With that, Nationalist Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai stood up, walked to the rostrum and announced that he would "not take part in any further proceedings." Amid sympathetic applause, he then led his five-member delegation out of the hall. It was the most dignified gesture in a tableau that a British delegate later described as "obscene...
EVERY year, the old man orders that his birthday be officially ignored, and every year it is celebrated as a national holiday. Early this week, in the wake of a stinging repudiation by the assembled nations of the world, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was to observe his 84th birthday, and so the presidential office building in Taipei was decorated with pine trees and long noodles, both symbols of longevity. An army chorus of 10,000 men gathered to sing Long Live the President. Some 20,000 others prepared to chant the same message from the mountains of southern Taiwan...