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While Chang assayed Japan's position. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan skipped across the South China Sea to Taipei, where he talked with Nationalist leaders and their constituents. Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar tapped sources in Singapore. Malaysia, the Philippines and Djakarta. Our Paris, Rome and Bonn bureaus reported on European reaction, while Washington correspondents covered the State Department, the White House and Capitol Hill...
...concluded briskly, that the expulsion "will be speedily implemented in its entirety." He is almost certainly right. Though the agencies act on their own, they usually follow the General Assembly's lead. Thus UNESCO (the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) moved swiftly at its Paris headquarters to give Taipei the boot by a 25-to-2 margin with five abstentions. Only the U.S. and Brazil resisted the tide...
...after Britain first applied to join the European Economic Community, the House of Commons votes on whether Britain should join the six-nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly decides whether the Peking government alone will represent China's nearly 800 million people, or whether Taipei will continue to represent the 14 million people of Taiwan. At Turtle Bay and Westminster alike, the debates were disappointingly humdrum, for no orator proved capable of crafting words to match the moment. Yet, in both places, the mood was expectant and electric...
...Peking's will in New York, Albania's swart Foreign Minister Nesti Nase rasped that Chiang's government "does not represent anything." He demanded swift adoption of the so-called Albanian resolution, which prescribes the seating of the Peking regime and immediate expulsion of the Nationalists. Taipei's embattled Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai replied heatedly that if Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal for dual representation of both Peking and Taipei in the U.N. The case...
Benjamin I. Sehwartz '38, professor of History and Government, said he had "some worries" about the removal of Nationalist China, but believed "the benefit of Peking in the U.N. outweighs the expulsion of Taipei...