Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gathering material in Taipei for his latter-day Around the World in Eighty Days, Humorist's Humorist S.J. Perelman visited a place of refreshment called the Literary Inn. Suddenly he was surrounded by a draggle of highly painted professional ladies who obviously wanted more than his autograph. Only with some difficulty did the world traveler extricate himself from their importunities, but he emerged with wit unblunted. "It was a case," he mused to a friend on the way back to his hotel, "of the tail dogging...
...East Wind Is Kind." Moscow's Pravda restricted itself to a deadpan account of the U.S. table tennis team's visit to Peking. But the unspoken Soviet reaction could be judged from past editorials that inveighed against Sino-American "collusion" at Russia's expense. In Taipei, the China Times predictably warned in mixed metaphors that "the Chinese Communists hide a dagger beneath their smile...
...regime's status as an embattled government in exile has served to justify its tight, autocratic rule of the island. The 2,000,000 mainlanders enjoy a number of political and economic perquisites, but the 12 million native Taiwanese have only token representation in the Taipei government. The change in U.S. policy thus may give a lift to the weak and diffuse Taiwan independence movement...
...bristling letter to the White House, 200 Taiwanese legislators last week warned Nixon that his policy was "unrealistic and fallacious." Taipei's semi-independent United Daily News, in an almost unheard of salvo at Chiang's Cabinet, blasted the Foreign Ministry for being "cowardly and insensitive" in making Taiwan's case in Washington. Last week mild-mannered Foreign Minister Wei Tao-ming, 72, a Paris-educated lawyer and wartime Ambassador to the U.S., abruptly decided to retire, citing reasons of health. The "Gimo," who is now 83, has also decided that the Nationalists should press their case...
...public, Taipei's leaders continue to rail against "appeasement." But in private a more realistic reassessment of Taiwan's future is under way. Some Taiwanese fret that anything so dramatic as walking out of the U.N. the moment Communist China comes in might cost the Chiang regime much of its good will in the U.S., and thus accelerate the trend toward U.S. accommodation with Peking. As one Nationalist official puts it, the great fear is that ultimately "a two-China policy might lead to a one-China policy." By that he meant a situation under which...