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...also a war of superlatives that brought more men (5,000,000) from more countries (16) to a smaller piece of real estate (85,000 sq. mi.) than any other war in history. It has kept the U.S. fighting longer than World War I; it has already cost the U.S. $22 billion...
...unanimously decided General Li Mi's National Salvation Army had no right to be here...
...National Salvation Army is a collection of bandits. Such "vilification," he says, actually included the charges that he personally had been riding around Bangkok in a fancy limousine, that he supports no fewer than twelve concubines. "I don't think my wife would permit it," says Li Mi drily...
Washington and Taipei have repeatedly denied sending military aid to Li, but the evidence is mounting that in 1951 some U.S. supplies were airlifted to the Nationalist redoubt. More recently, the traffic has ceased, presumably because the State Department or the Pentagon became convinced that Li Mi's enterprise is doing more harm to Burma than it is to the Red Chinese...
...removing the National Salvation Army from its lair in the Shan mountains will not be an easy matter. Says General Li Mi: "Rather than evacuate ... we could still turn to smuggling or even become bandits and plunder to stay alive. Look at my people. Now they have full freedom to fight the Reds. Here [in Formosa] they would be leashed...