Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected to hear no more about it. After all, the technique had worked before-notably three years ago, when another political critic, the daily Rung Lun Pao's chief editorial writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving about as easy to hush up as a typhoon...
...Shih, China's most eminent scholar and a former Chinese Nationalist Ambassador to the U.S., bustled between Washington and New York, demanding an open civil trial for Lei Chen. Dr. Hu is a close friend of Chiang Kaishek, but at the same time he is also a leading exponent of Formosa's need for a responsible opposition. Other overseas Chinese took up the cudgels. In Hong Kong the British-owned China Mail said angrily that Lei's arrest proved that "free speech is as dangerous in Formosa as it was shown to be during the Hundred Flowers...
Until last spring, South Africa's Nationalist government considered Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg Richard Ambrose Reeves just another irritating and ineffective critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England...
...were native-born Formosans. To the mainland Chinese who run the Kuomintang, it seemed clear that Lei & Co. planned to capitalize on discontent among native Formosans, who make up 80% of the island's 10 million population, yet are all but excluded from the top ranks of the Nationalist government...
...Deaf Ear. One morning last week, security police bustled into Lei's suburban Taipei home and hauled the publisher off to face a military court on charges of sedition. Though the Nationalist government insisted that Lei had not been arrested for trying to organize an opposition, the cops (who are bossed by Chiang Kai-shek's son, Moscow-educated Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo) were careful to take with them membership lists of the China Democratic Party. Lei's crime, the authorities declared, had been to publish in his magazine articles "defaming the chief of state, creating...