Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saigon last week, protesting what they called inadequate support from Nationalist China, several hundred unhappy Chinese rioted, wrecked the Chinese legation, screamed denunciations at Chinese Minister Yuen Tse-kien. In Formosa's capital of Taipeh, Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh worried whether the Vietnamese demonstration was only the beginning: "We Chinese are being looked on as the Jews of Asia...
...September, Photographer Robert Crandall embarked on one of his most exacting assignments: photographing some of the great store of Chinese art masterpieces that have been hidden from the world for more than two decades. He had flown to Formosa after TIME Correspondents John Osborne and Curtis Prendergast arranged with Nationalist Chinese authorities to unpack their choicest works, as selected by art experts Dr. Wang Shih-chieh...
...Formosa's last general elections three years ago, the candidate who carried off the top political job of mayor of the capital of Taipei was no Kuomintang (government) party stalwart, but a hard-campaigning islander named Kao Yu-shu. Nationalist leaders, painfully aware that many Formosans (Taiwanese) resented the political control of the Chinese mainlanders, were quick to get the point. Overruling the advice of old-line ward bosses (who wanted to gerrymander Taipei into an independent city and make its mayor a political appointee), Kuomintang reform politicians set out to defeat Independent Kao in the next election...
...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...