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What did Douglas MacArthur say to Chiang Kaishek...
...skies over Formosa one day this week roared a U.S. C-54. It landed smoothly at Taipei's airfield. From the Bataan stepped General Douglas MacArthur. He was welcomed by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose determined face had over the years become almost as familiar to history as Douglas MacArthur's lofty scowl. MacArthur, accompanied by Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, had come to discuss the defenses of Formosa, which the U.S. is committed to guard against Red attack. Said MacArthur, shaking Chiang's hand: "How do you do, Generalissimo, it was nice...
Technician of Order. When Wu returned to China in 1926, Sun Yat-sen was dead. Vast areas of the country were bitterly contested by warlords with their private armies and by Nationalist revolutionaries. The best of the Nationalists, Chiang Kaishek, Sun's disciple, set out from Canton at the head of a revolutionary army on his famous Northern Expedition to quell the warlords. Young Nationalist K. C. Wu tried to join Chiang's army. He was rejected with the explanation: "You are too educated...
...Stalin shared this cover with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Henry Pu-Yi, the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese-led Manchurian army had clashed with Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire...
...nine U.N. members not asked for armed aid: the U.S., already in Korea up to its ears; Nationalist China, whose offer to send troops was being stalled because the U.S. State Department still could not make up its mind to cooperate with Chiang Kaishek; Costa Rica whose constitution forbids it to have an army and the six of the 59 U.N. members (Yugoslavia and the five Soviet-bloc nations) who did not give some form of backing to the U.N. action in Korea...