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...tardiness and timidity have been remarkable. "It has been the press and not the leaders of the Democratic Party who have drawn the attention of the country to the sloganeering of the Administration in the field of foreign policy: to the President's 'unleashing' of Chiang Kaishek, to Mr. Dulles' policies of 'massive retaliation,' 'liberation,' 'positive loyalty,' 'agonizing reappraisal' and 'united action.' It was the press that was pointing to the effects of Senator McCarthy's tactics on the Administration's authority . . . "Have Walter...
Does this mean that Chiang accepts-and would even wish to bring on-World War III? Today's world might not be prepared to accept Chiang's answer, for it runs counter to accepted habits of thought. His "counterattack" on the mainland, says Chiang Kaishek, will not bring on a general war: in fact, it is the only way World War III can be avoided, for so long as the mainland of China is in Communist hands, a third world war will always be possible and perhaps likely...
...comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President's face. The visitor instinctively rises and takes his leave. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, frail and formidable in his black gown and skullcap, bows his visitor out without moving from his place...
...1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were finding that the grapes were bitter, Chiang Kaishek, who himself has erred grievously in other things, both by omission and commission, clung to his hedgehog truth...
...early 19305 every U.S. schoolboy -and his teacher, too-knew the essential facts about China's Chiang Kaishek: Chiang, married to a pretty Chinese girl with a U.S. education, was a selfless Christian general who had fought down Communists and war lords to unite his country for the first time in its modern history. Ten years later many a schoolboy, teacher and clubwoman was hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress...