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Thank you for your article [Sept. 19] regarding the Chinese Nationalists' arrest of my father, Lei Chen, the respected publisher of the magazine Free China, and the head of an effort to organize the China Democratic Party as a legal and anti-Communist opposition group on Formosa...
...Lei Chen case would be a disgrace at any time, but for Chiang's American patrons it is particularly disturbing with Premier Khrushchev making loud noises at the UN about a seat for Communist China. Mao has been sufficiently bellicose in the recent past to scare away his usual support from India and other Asian neutrals. Chiang's antics, however, show once again that his friendship (like that of other dictators) is of dubious value for the United States. His dependence on American aid is such that the State Department need not keep quiet while civil liberties die. The lesson...
This week the Chinese skeleton is rattling for all it is worth. A Taipei publisher named Lei Chen made the mistake last summer of starting an opposition party--something that is not done in America's rather tarnished bastion of democracy in the Far East. On September 4, Chang's men arrested Lei on charges of sedition, much to the dismay of Nationalist intellectuals at home and overseas. Now the trial, originally scheduled for October 15, is being pushed through this week, and no one has any serious doubts as to its outcome...
Even on Formosa the government's claim that Lei had employed two Communist agents on his Free China Fortnightly was not believed. "If Lei had really been suspected of Communist affiliations," said a Nationalist, "he would have been arrested long ago." Lei's political colleagues refused to scare; they announced they would go ahead and establish their China Democratic Party without...
...week's end Chinese Nationalists were unhappily trying to figure a way out. Admitted one official: "The government would gladly release Lei if it had any way of saving face...