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...Ramon Magsaysay (see FOREIGN NEWS), Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur W. Radford and his wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...
...Iran, of his plans to "redeploy" the British fighting force in the Middle East, of his many chats with President Eisenhower, about "our Russian fellow mortals-for that is what they are," about atomic energy, about EDC (see INTERNATIONAL), about such "awkward personalities as Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kaishek" and other matters...
Mutual Fear. Then, unexpectedly, one day last week, Syngman Rhee flew to Formosa for talks with Chiang Kaishek. The two anti-Communist leaders had specific issues to discuss: 1) What should be done with the 14,600 Chinese prisoners who are due for release at Panmunjom next January? 2) Should Chinese Nationalist troops be sent to Korea if fighting is resumed? But what drew them together was a mutual fear that their U.S. ally was drawing back from the front line in Asia...
...P.W.s was a catastrophic blow to Communist prestige. The immensity of that blow could be measured in the reaction of the Indians on the scene, dumfounded at the discovery that prisoners might be defiant to the death against Communists and not simply (as they thought) coerced by Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Mark Clark...
Died. Edwin Goodman, 76, chairman and co-founder of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman (women's specialty shop), where he personally attended to the wants of the world's rich and royal (e.g., Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. John Jacob Astor); in Manhattan...