Word: kaishek
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...Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor. He met with top Nationalist officials, conferred three times with 77-year-old Chiang Kaishek. Said Ky after his talk with the Gimo: "Regardless of the differences of age, these conversations were the most delightful of my life." In Bangkok he made the rounds of banquets and conferences with the Thais, who are fighting Communist harassment on their northern borders and are preparing...
...newcomers and the 5,000,000 natives settled down together in an uneasy truce while the Red Chinese juggernaut massed across the 115-mile-wide strip of water. It was then that President Truman warned that the U.S. would do nothing to stop the Communists or to aid Chiang Kaishek...
...United Nations, which for months has been crippled by the dispute over assessments for U.N. peacekeeping operations-for which, of course, the French have not been willing to pay. The problem, decided De Gaulle, lay not in the U.N. Charter-which, "with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek, I had the honor of working out"-but in the fact that the General Assembly had usurped the powers delegated by the charter to the veto-conscious Security Council. "Under the pressure of events in Korea, in Suez, in Hungary, and of the immoderate abuse by the Soviets of their veto...
...eldest son of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 55-year-old Chiang Ching-kuo has long been touted to have better than an even chance to take charge of Nationalist China when his father, now 77, retires. But no one could ever be certain that Little Chiang would win out over Vice President Chen Cheng, rival leader of another Kuomintang faction...
...FORMOSA: still staunchly held by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 77, who continues to insist that he will return to the mainland but obviously has no chance of doing...