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...seen since the Korean war. Day after day. Red Chinese batteries rained 152-mm. and 122-mm. shells on Quemoy and the smaller surrounding islands of Little Quemoy, Hutzuyn, Tatan and Erhtan. It was a heavy shelling, but hardly the 122,000 rounds estimated by Nationalist headquarters in Taipei. Nationalists reported about 700 civilian and military casualties, killed and wounded...
...imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling, Peking calculatedly added to the rustle of tensions by moving MIG-17 jet fighters into several previously unused airfields along the South China coast, one of them only 22 minutes' flying time from Taipei...
...Generalissimo also gave a strong hint of his future plans. If General Chen does the usual efficient job the Gimo expects from him, he may well succeed to the presidency in 1960. At that time the Gimo, who is 70, will complete his second six-year term, and Taipei is betting that he will not ask to have the constitution changed to permit a third. Instead, he is expected to turn over the presidency to Chen, and continue to have a hand in things by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...
...speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues for giving elaborate parties. One of his four sons is working his way through M.I.T., his two daughters are studying at Georgia Wesleyan. His wife is a devout Christian, who attends Madame Chiang's prayer meetings, but Chen says stiffly that he himself...
...first Foreign Affairs Minister of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, onetime judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh Fa (China's modernized code...