Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record as favoring ultimate recognition of Red China, laid down-for this year, at any rate-a firmer line on Asiatic Communism: "We must not compromise with Communist military aggression in Asia or in any other place . . . That does not mean that we should assume that every anticolonial, nationalist or revolutionary movement in Asia is Russian Communist in origin or direction, any more than we should assume that, with patience and sympathy, every Asian Communist leader can be turned into a Tito ... I suggest that we must . . . try to convince the Asian people that . . . our kind of democracy, free democracy...
...P.W.s, loaded into trucks, were driven off towards Seoul. Korean farmers lined the road to cheer them. The Chinese P.W.s waved their flags and chanted, "Resist Russia-Down with the Reds." Then they sang songs of what they would do to the women when they got to the Nationalist island of Taiwan (Formosa), and cried to themselves that they were free...
Said one P.W. "My tongue fails to describe how happy I feel." Nationalist China, bursting with pride that so many of its countrymen have chosen the Nationalist side when choosing was difficult, was determined to give the prisoners a rousing welcome. But it also wanted to be sure that no unregenerate Communist agents slipped in unrecognized in the general rejoicing. Charged with the duties both of welcome and of careful screening is the officer who has emerged as Nationalist China's rising man. He is Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of the 66-year-old Generalissimo Chiang...
...Formosa, Chiang Ching-kuo came into his own. He organized the political department of the Ministry of National Defense. He established "political officers" in every echelon down to platoon level and even among the guerrilla forces operating on the mainland. Their mission: to indoctrinate the troops for Nationalist China, against the Communists. Orders issued by unit commanders had to be countersigned by the unit political officers, who got their orders from Chiang Ching-kuo and were responsible only to him. They also functioned as a secret police. (In 1951 a top-ranking general was accused by Chiang Ching...
...landing with an overland attack towards the new beachhead, from the general direction of Saigon. The objective: to winkle the Communists out of the.hills, back down to the French on the coast. The veteran French battalion from Korea moved expertly through the limestone hills, followed by a green, Vietnamese nationalist division, 10,000 strong. They surprised a Communist encampment and inflicted considerable losses. Loyal mountain tribesmen in loincloths attacked a Communist post with their coup coup knives and captured a Communist flag...