Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plebiscite has ever been held in Red China on the issue of Chiang Kaishek, and none ever will be. But there have been two occasions when Chinese were offered a free choice...
...placing ourselves within gun range of Communist China, which is certain to cause an incident that will plunge us into another war. I don't recall the Lord giving us the power to police a family fight between Communist China and the political corpse, Chiang Kaishek...
...immediate cease-fire in the Quemoy area and renunciation by Peking of the use of force in the Formosa Strait. Wang countered with a demand for immediate withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist troops garrisoning the Quemoy and Matsu Islands and an end to U.S. military support of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Blunter yet was the Nationalists' unexplained canceling of the visa of NBC Correspondent James Robinson while he was in the U.S. for a news program. Apparent reason: following Robinson's filmed TV interview in May with Chiang Kaishek. NBC angered the Generalissimo by noting he had ducked such questions as what would happen to his government if the U.S. recognized Red China...
...cannot be allowed to assert territorial claims by force. That principle the U.S. was properly committed to defend-with a vigor that many of its allies could be grateful for but were too pusillanimous to join. An agreement on the islands' neutralization would be bitter tea for Chiang Kaishek, but it might also be the only way to remove what Dwight Eisenhower called "the thorn in the side of peace...