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...Illinois, Formosa's ex-Gov ernor Dr. K. C. Wu has grown increasingly violent in denouncing the Chiang Kai-shek regime he once served. "Formosa has been perverted into a police state," he cried shrilly in Look. Last week China's most respected scholar, Dr. Hu Shih, onetime (1938-42) Ambassador to the U.S.. entered an emphatic rebuttal. It was all the more forceful because Philosopher...
...Shih, a stout anti-Communist and longtime supporter of Chiang Kaishek, has himself long been an open critic of the Kuomintang...
Writing in this week's New Leader, Hu Shih was particularly scornful of K. C. W7u's implication that the political and military situation was good while he was governor of Formosa (1949-53), but that it has deteriorated tragically since...
...fact is," said Hu Shih, "that Formosa was far from the rule of law and democracy in those early years of 1949-51 ... and only in the last three years, and notably since June 1952, has there been a far greater measure of civil liberties and the rule of law than at any time in the past . . . Freedom of speech and the press is now shared by all who have the moral courage to speak out . . . Elections have been and still are quite free. In the recent May 2 elections, the Kuomintang candidate for mayor in the capital city...
...Shih had lingering misgivings. He deplored the Kuomintang's insistence on one party, its rigid repression of criticism ("On the whole there is much more freedom here than on the mainland, but I would like to see still more freedom of the press and person in Taiwan"), on its authoritarian "obey the leader" doctrine. That Hu Shih could say these things when and where he did was some testimonial to Formosa's freedom, and one reason he had made his choice. The problem was to extend that freedom to less distinguished critics...