Word: nationlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having to make a last-ditch stand had purged the Nationalists. Above all they were removed, if only 100 miles across the Straits of Formosa, from the Reds' corrosive power. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitter foes concede that his government on Formosa is better than any Nationlist government of the past. Formosa (for 50 years brutally but efficiently ruled by the Japanese) is orderly, clean and prosperous looking. Over the neat towns and the green hills there seems to blow a breeze of determination and high spirit...
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