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...Moralist. In many ways Nehru is a deeply appealing figure to Americans. Some of them had a fleeting glimpse of him when he came to the U.S. in 1949 and thought him mighty civil and handsome. No other living Asian leader, with the exception of Chiang Kaishek, has fought so doggedly for his country's aspirations. He is not the kind of man who invites a slap on the back and a friendly "Hi, Pandit" (which, according to Geoffrey Gorer, a studious misinterpreter of U.S. folkways, is the only basis on which Americans really like anybody). Nehru has said...
Within a month after the President's announcement neutralizing Formosa, he had flown there to call on Chiang Kai-shek and had been pictured kissing the hand of Madame Chiang Kaishek; he made numerous statements to visitors of the course he deemed necessary in Asia, and he fired off his famed letter to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, declaring Formosa essential to U.S. defense...
...glorious contributions to Asia of British justice and organization are forgotten. Only the seamy side of imperialism is remembered. On many subjects, Truman could profitably use British wisdom and experience. But to take British guidance on Asia is like taking guidance on credit and currency problems from Chiang Kaishek...
China's Madame SUN YATSEN, 60, widow of the founder of the Chinese (Kuomintang) Republic, sister-in-law and political foe of Chiang Kaishek, joined the Red regime at Peking as one of its showpiece non-Communist vice chairmen...
...Government Council ordered life imprisonment or the death penalty for .21 crimes (including draft-dodging, tax delinquency and the spreading of "false rumors"), Vice Chairman Peng Chen of the Council's Political and Legal Committee gave a surprisingly frank explanation: "Special agents, bandits of America and Chiang Kaishek, have emerged openly from their underground hiding places . . . They are plundering openly, assassinating party cadres . . . even revolting in many places." He cited an impressive example: 3,000 Communist government agents had been killed recently in Kwangsi Province, near the border of Indo-China...