Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby...
...They had been equally unmoved by the surprisingly candid statement of Australia's Sir Percy Spender: "It is not principle with which we are concerned here but expedience-the expediency of inexorable political circumstances." They also had been unmoved by two personal appeals from President Eisenhower to Chiang Kaishek, urging support for the notion of "universality" of U.N. membership.* But to the Nationalists, the logic of "universality" had nothing to do with fractions of Russia. And furthermore it might lead to the seating of Communist China...
Rickett is obsessed with the evils that he attributes to Chiang Kaishek. "When I criticize the U.S., what I am really criticizing is its position on Formosa." He believes that the U.S. should abandon Formosa and drop its embargo on strategic trade with Red China. He remarked with quiet satisfaction that from what he had heard about the Geneva negotiations (which resulted in his release), "things are going the way I think they should." He claimed that he had been a U.S. spy, but, when questioned, he admitted that he had merely reported his observations of China to an American...
Scripps-Howard staffers had gathered tape-recorded tributes from all over the world. Said Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay: "I think it is a tribute to the durability and staying power of the American press that it has been able to survive 50 years of Roy Howard." Chirped Madame Chiang Kaishek: "I am delighted to have this opportunity to make you listen to me for once...
...from Red China . . . congratulations on your story. You are one of the few American publications still able to retain an independence of opinion about Free China amid the maelstrom of lies. It seems that many-including Americans-are convinced that we Chinese want Mao Tse-tung and not Chiang Kaishek. As long as Chiang and Formosa exist, the free and enslaved Chinese will live and fight on in hope...