Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Risso. Frisky assembles all of the old cast and most of the old plot for another run-through. But this time the razor edge of comedy has dulled: Gina's rowdiness is strident, De Sica's amorous posturings predictable, Risso's Li'l Abnerisms boring. Like the picture itself, the earthquake that brings everything to a happy conclusion is anticlimactic...
...special commission investigating the case of General Sun Li-jen, the U.S.-educated World War II hero who abruptly resigned last summer as Chiang Kai-shek's personal chief of staff amid rumors of a Red plot (TIME, Aug. 29), made public its findings last week. Its verdict: General Sun had formed a clique of army officers that had been used-without his knowledge-by a Red agent. Accepting the commission's recommendation of clemency, President Chiang announced that the general would be "given an opportunity to redeem himself and be subject to no further disciplinary action...
Retired Nationalist General Yu Ching-man lacked the high distinction of his Hong Kong neighbor General Wei Li-huang, who defected to the Communists last March. Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause. He had prospered outside Red China with his investments in Hong Kong real estate, in Macao fisheries and Chinese trading firms...
Recently, General Yu received a secret visit from old friend and new Communist, General Wei, who came back under an assumed name to stir up other defections. Soon afterward, General Yu received a visit from another old friend, General Li Mi, onetime commander of Nationalist troops in Burma, who now occasionally visits Hong Kong incognito from Formosa. Both left his house without any commitment from General Yu and presumably without any certainty that Yu had not committed himself to the other...
...Li-jen's dissent took on a broader basis than his estimate of the Gimo's personal defects. He had always believed that the Nationalists' only chance of regaining the mainland turned on the readiness of the U.S. to lend active military support. When events-as he read them-indicated finally that the U.S. Republican Administration was not apt to do more than a Democratic Administration to put the Formosa troops back on the mainland, he abandoned hope. He argued that the Nationalists must give up the idea of returning to the mainland and make the best...