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...buyer of U.S. warplanes and supplies for Nationalist China, Lieut. General P. T. Mow (who likes to be called Pete) failed to account for $19 million in funds credited to his name in U.S. banks. Early this year, when his government sued in a Washington, D.C. federal court for an accounting and the return of any unspent money, Mow took a powder (TIME, March 10). His lawyer admitted that Mow had gone across the border to Mexico...
...know. General James A. Van Fleet guessed aloud that the Communists would not dare to try an offensive this spring. If they did, said he, his forces could stop them: "It would be a good thing if we could get those people out of their foxholes and dugouts, to mow them down the way we did last April and May." But actually, the U.N. command was not so bold. To break through the enemy successfully, they said, they would need at least another two divisions, and it would cost 25,000 fresh U.N. casualties, perhaps more...
...Formosa government brought civil suit in the federal district court in Washington to compel Mow to account for the millions put into his hands, and to return any money still left (the Nationalists thought there ought to be $7,000,000). Mow retained as his attorney Colonel William A. Roberts, a Washington lawyer who fed a steady stream of "news" to reporters; the newsmen apparently hardly paused to ask whether Mow and Hsiang were really the victims and opponents of corruption they claimed to be. Over Roberts' objections the district court insisted that it had jurisdiction, ordered plaintiff...
About the Money. At that point (beginning in January) Mow and Hsiang began to act like men afraid to test their case before a judge. The court managed to get its hands on only $614,000 of the $7,000,000 or so which Mow presumably still controls. Mow quietly took a powder: on Jan. 23, then on Feb. 8, he failed to appear for deposition. He went to Mexico City instead. Hsiang also absented himself from Washington. Last week, to Attorney Roberts' embarrassment, came news from Hong Kong: Hsiang's family had gone from San Francisco...
This week, with the two officers still absent, the district court handed down a judgment by default against Mow...