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...China we have made the fatal mistake every soldier dreads: underestimating the enemy. If we had dreamed that the Communists could take China, we would have swallowed Chiang Kaishek, horns, cloven hooves and all-if that was the way we felt about him. Personally I have great respect for Chiang...
Soong is now living comfortably in the U.S., where much of his money is. He has failed to obey the summons of his brother-in-law, Chiang Kaishek, to go back to Formosa and take his share of responsibility for the defense of the last citadel of the Chinese Nationalist government...
...Bourke Hickenlooper charged that at least some of the documents were important U.S. wartime secrets. Didn't one of them show the disposition in 1944 of U.S. submarines in the Pacific? Wasn't one of them a highly confidential ("for eyes only") message from Roosevelt to Chiang Kaishek? Said Hickenlooper: "I think that all Americans will be appalled when the whole truth becomes known...
...spite of the implications of these five propositions, there is no serious move in Washington to reverse the December Formosa decision. Any effort to revive the issue gets lost in the old argument about whether the U.S. can cooperate with Chiang Kaishek. Chiang said last week that he would be willing to see General MacArthur assume responsibility for the integrity of Formosa. If the U.S. through MacArthur did assume responsibility, such questions as Chiang's personality would recede into proper perspective. Formosa could then be weighed in terms of future peril to the free world rather than in terms...
...word for it. Born in China, the son of a missionary who later became moderator of the United Church in Canada, Endicott spent most of his youth close to the church. After twelve years as a China missionary, Endicott became an adviser on social-welfare problems to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Like many another Westerner, he was shocked by the poverty and corruption he saw in China, but his disillusionment ran deeper than most. He came back to Canada in 1947, highly critical of the Chiang government and full of praise for its Communist enemies...