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...temporary" capital city of Taipei, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 73, last week was elected to his third six-year term as President of Nationalist China. Not a single vote had been cast against...
...traffic judge in Oakland, Calif, gave a three-day jail sentence (suspended) to Alan H. W. Chiang, 25, a grandson of Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, for revving his car up to 80 m.p.h. in a 65-m.p.h. zone. Not at all impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense...
...Americans most admire? For the twelfth year, according to Gallup pollsters, the answer is the same: Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, by her customary wide margin. The distinguished others, in the order of their mention: Mamie Eisenhower, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Patricia Nixon, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Singer Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world's "most...
FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that...
...from the U.S. Army after 50 years of service, duty again was thrust on him. Truman appointed him his special envoy with ambassador's rank, sent him to China with orders to try to bring a peace between China's Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would attend his efforts in the Orient...