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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, durable ally of the U.S., last week began his second six-year term as President of Nationalist China. For his inaugural address in Taipei he wore a ceremonial long gown; a crowd of 50,000 cheered him and broke police lines. His hearers included some 160 members of the Taipei diplomatic corps...
Much of what the Communists have wrought in China was begun before them by the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek; the Communists simply stole the revolution by deceit and mutiny while the country struggled against Japan. That power could not have been won without the carefully measured direction, aid and comfort of Communist Russia. The Communist rise in China might have been forestalled by wiser, firmer policies of China's Western friends. But what was relevant to the rest of the world last week was that China's Communists had been able to assemble...
...West might make behind their backs? At home, the management was frustrated by a lack of demand for their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...
...Americans turned their native ingenuity to a new game they called "relay race." They set up "imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
...Communist agents slipped in unrecognized in the general rejoicing. Charged with the duties both of welcome and of careful screening is the officer who has emerged as Nationalist China's rising man. He is Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of the 66-year-old Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...