Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sacred Mission. During Dulles' three days on Formosa, he and Chiang held four conferences. From these meetings, plus Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor's separate talks with Nationalist military leaders came an understanding that when and if the Red Chinese agree to a "dependable" ceasefire, or at least refrain from acts of aggression for months in a row, Chiang will start gradually reducing his forces on the offshore islands...
...carry out our mission of anti-Communist and national survival, we depend upon political more than military means," he said in a message to a Youth Corps rally...
...Shute, 59, who was an aeronautical engineer and military pilot, this time returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers...
With the dreams out of the way, Ronnie Clark can get on with his rescue mission. Question, not answered till the final pages: Will he arrive in time? As always, Shute writes in plain, unadorned prose, packs his book with pluck and poignancy, and handles his flashbacks as easily as he would a basic trainer...
...communique issued at Taipei on the Dulles-Chiang conference contained a public renunciation of the use of force by Nationalist China to return to the mainland. It said the Nationalists would rely upon peaceful means to carry out their "sacred mission" of freeing China's 600 million people from Communist rule...