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Carpetbagging General Chen Yi had to put aside, reluctantly, his five-year plan to "reeducate" Formosa. The chief results of his 19 months as governor general had been riots and rebellion by Formosans who detested Chen's grafting monopolies, Chen's monopoly police, and Chen himself (TIME, April...
To give further assurance that Formosans were no longer to be treated like stepchildren, Nanking abolished the governor-generalship outright. Hereafter Formosa will be run like a province of metropolitan China. In Chen's place Nanking was sending a diplomat this time-wise, soft-spoken Wei Tao-ming, Kuomintang...
Little Parties In. The signers agreed that the new State Council-China's "supreme organ on state affairs" pending popular elections-should include 17 members of the Kuomintang* and four each from the other three groups. There were vacant council chairs for the Communists on terms nobody in China...
New Man Up. Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang...
Non-Statisticians Out. Because of Chang's role of Nanking moderate, the West read last week's news from China with satisfaction. The moderates, with the non-Kuomintang liberals, seemed to have a solid majority in the new State Council, and Chiang seemed to be on their side...