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...smashing Japanese armies in Burma in World War II. Ordered to Formosa in 1946 to train new armies, he organized Chiang Kai-shek's forces for the liberation of the mainland and from 1950 to 1954 held the job of army commander in chief. Last week the Taipei government abruptly announced that General Sun had resigned his post as Chiang's personal chief of staff. Major Kuo Ting-liang, a member of the general's own staff, said the communiqué, had confessed to working secretly inside the army as a Communist agent, and another half...
...Girl's Best Friend. In Taipei, Formosa, after winning a $15,000, 17-carat diamond ring in a lottery, Navy Lieut. Lin Shou Ming received 37 proposals of marriage...
...Taipei the Communist proposal hit a solid wall. After the U.S. said it would confer only if the Nationalists participated, Chiang Kai-shek's government immediately and firmly took the position that it "will reject any proposal to sit at the same table with representatives...
...Sudden Relaxation. Into that anxious atmosphere one day this week flew the silver, white and blue U.S. transport carrying Radford and Robertson. Their plane touched down at Taipei airport at precisely the scheduled hour of 11 a.m.. thereby satisfying Admiral Radford's passion for on-the-second arrivals. It was a sweet and winy morning, and Chinese and American greeters basked in the sunshine as the big plane landed. A Nationalist military band and a guard of honor stood by to salute the visitors. Heading the welcomers was Nationalist Foreign Minister Yeh, whose mood was not nearly...
...wore on, the tense anxiety that had preceded the arrival of Radford and Robertson eased away. After several hours of conferences, which were expected to extend into several days, a Chinese Nationalist communiqué glowed that "the conversation was conducted in an atmosphere of great harmony." Taipei officialdom dropped the hostile mood induced by false interpretation of the Radford-Robertson mission. The Communists had shifted the Formosa crisis, but had not achieved any sharp break in relations between the U.S. and the Chinese Nationalists...