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...organized Chiang Kai-shek's forces for the liberation of the mainland and from 1950 to 1954 held the job of army commander in chief. Last week the Taipei government abruptly announced that General Sun had resigned his post as Chiang's personal chief of staff. Major Kuo Ting-liang, a member of the general's own staff, said the communiqué, had confessed to working secretly inside the army as a Communist agent, and another half a dozen junior officers were implicated in "an attempt to create an incident of a subversive character." The general...
...Chiang returns home for lunch alone with his wife. Quite often, Fanina, the Russian wife of his son Chiang Ching-kuo, is there with his two younger grandchildren, with whom he romps delightedly. He naps briefly in the afternoon, works on papers, then summons favorite ministers in the late afternoon. After dinner Chiang often watches a movie or reads Chinese philosophers and poetry. A favorite is Confucian Wang Yang-ming, who taught that "to know and yet not to do is in fact not to know...
...there is his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, by an earlier marriage. The son's formal title is Deputy Secretary-General of the National Defense Council, but his real duties are as his father's troubleshooter. As head of the secret police and boss of the political officers in the armed forces, the son is chief guardian of the island's political security. As such, he is the most widely feared man on the island. A burly man of 46, Ching-kuo explains : "You must always remember that we have an enemy...
...danger is real: the Communists have tried hard to subvert Formosan loyalty. Three years ago a vice chief of staff was discovered to be a Communist spy. A few months ago two student pilots flew off to the Chinese mainland with an air-force trainer. But Chiang Ching-kuo insists that security cases are now down to two or three a month...
...Jawaharlal's Pancha Shila-"five principles of coexistence." Then the Communists pushed the well-intentioned to the back of the stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part of China just as Long Island is a part of the U.S.," he said...