Word: kaishek
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...good-quality steel a day. Last week, according to commune knowledge, the lady joined the workers in the garden, saying: "Making steel also tempers people." As vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, sister of Nationalist China's Madame Chiang Kaishek and widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, she is an alloy herself-Madame Sun Yatsen...
Dulles was concerned, too, about the transparent Communist Chinese attempts to drive a wedge between the Nationalists and their U.S. ally. So was Chiang Kaishek, who called reporters into his austere Formosa office for one of his rare formal statements: "If we have to evacuate Quemoy and Matsu under pressure, not only the Chinese people but all people of Asia would lose confidence in America. Anti-Communists living on the mainland would also be disillusioned...
...allies in Europe, while hailing the principle of collective security, kept their backs coldly turned on the U.S. position in Asia. On Formosa, Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, old U.S. ally, called his first press conference in three years, added to Dulles' troubles by proclaiming that I) the U.S.'s recent meetings with Red China diplomats in Warsaw to negotiate a cease-fire were "futile," and 2) the U.S., in any event, had "approved" his decision to move strong forces onto Quemoy and the other offshore islands. "Fear," said Chiang, "grows the farther you get from...
...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...
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...