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...fought harder, more steadfastly or more tragically to stem the forces advancing along the Lenin-mapped route than Chiang Kaishek, and no leader in the free world knows those forces better, or has known them longer. Out of his bitter knowledge comes this book, subtitled A Summing-Up at Seventy.* It is extraordinary, among other things, for what it is not. It is neither bitter nor angry; it wastes no time on past glories or on recriminations. It is a coldly impersonal study of what went wrong in China and what ought to be done now. The book...
...When China fell in 1949, 600,000 soldiers and 400,000 others reached Formosa with Chiang Kaishek. Native population of Formosa...
...President Eisenhower in 1955 sent his "personal assurance" to Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, thereby "satisfying him" that the U.S. would help defend Quemoy and Matsu, the islands in the Strait of Formosa off the Red Chinese mainland...
...known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died, will launch an immediate search for his successor-a baby born at the exact moment of his death...
...Formosa, Nationalist China's austere President Chiang Kaishek, for the moment at least a bystander to history, turned 70, still dreamed of recapturing the Chinese mainland, still showed no signs that the Red Chinese newspapers he reads each morning at breakfast are spoiling his appetite...