Word: kaishek
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Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, stated that closely associating ourselves with Chiang Kaishek only increases Red China's fear of our imperialist aims. China entered the war ostensibly because they feared an aggressive pincers movement he said...
President Eisenhower's decision to remove the Seventh Fleet as defense for the Communist China mainland marked a complete repudiation of one of the strangest policies in the history of the U.S.: the Truman-Acheson policy of suppressing the Chinese Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Shooing Away. The Nationalists reacted quickly. Before Britain formally recognized the Reds in January 1950, they had sold the planes to Civil Air Transport, Inc. (C.A.T.), a corporation chartered in the U.S. by Major General Claire Chennault of wartime Flying Tiger fame, longtime air adviser to Chiang Kaishek. Then came two years of expensive court cases; each time, the Hong Kong courts upheld the Communist claim to the planes. Red guards were admitted to the British airfield where the planes were parked: they shooed away all visitors. Finally Chennault took his appeal to Britain's court of last resort...
...nice to Mao Tse-tung. Britain's newspapers have treated the Korean fighting as a dull, disagreeable affair worth only a few sticks of type. The House of Commons debate was marked by ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself. Some Britons actually seemed to believe that a truce had been in operation in Korea until the U.S. bombers dropped their payloads last week, and seemed shocked when Acheson told them the "lull" had cost the U.N. 30,000 casualties...
...Gives Formosa to Chiang Kaishek...