Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang was first portrayed OH the cover in 1927 as a grave young Nationalist leader and heir to DR. SUN YATSEN. His goal today is the same as it was then: the unification of all China. To put the goal in geographic perspective, TIME illustrates the story with graphic four-color maps of Formosa, mainland China in panorama, and an azimuthal equidistant projection (Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr.'s jawbreaking term for it) of the Generalissimo's target, Red China...
...always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair...
...President of Nationalist China will hear no talk of settling down on a neutralized Formosa. Chiang Kai-shek does not believe this is one of the possibilities open to him or to the world, no matter how much well-intentioned diplomats try to bring off a settlement. On this basic point he and his Communist enemy (to judge by the enemy's words) are in complete agreement...
...Home. The Formosans had no cause to love the 2,000,000 defeated Nationalists who descended on them at the bitter end of 1949. The first Nationalist governor to take over from the Japanese at war's end had arrived with a retinue of carpetbaggers and incompetents. In 1947 a rebellion flared which lasted three days, was bloodily put down by General Peng Meng-chi, then commander of the Nationalist garrison and now acting chief of the general staff. Thousands were killed...
...wing of F-86 Sabre jets) is equipped to the bare level of a minimum defense. Its new commander, General "Tiger" Wang, is rated one of China's best military men. It has been held down, and is still being held down, by the U.S. decision that the Nationalists should not have any offensive capability of their own. This has applied even to fuel and ammunition supply. The small Nationalist navy (corvettes, destroyer escorts, LSTs) is adequate for blockade purposes, but would be negligible in an all-out fight...