Word: taiwan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, you report that a "glacial silence" followed my opening remark at my Taiwan dinner meeting with Chinese Nationalist leaders, and then you say that I returned to Tokyo the next day, as though that were the reason. This is untrue and misleading. As I intended, my remark relaxed the atmosphere and we had a cordial discussion. I returned to Tokyo the next day to fulfill a predetermined schedule of work for my committee...
Strenuous & Serious. Though CBC scorns the rating game,*its prize shows are highly popular. Closeup sends cameramen anywhere (Cuba, Egypt, Taiwan), interviews anyone (Evelyn Waugh, Brigitte Bardot), tackles any subject (homosexuality in Canada). CBC is strong on serious drama (recent example: The Crucible') and occasionally goes all out for esoterica: it spent $147,376 on a full-length production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. On CBC Folio the Winnipeg Ballet and the Toronto Symphony lure more than 1,000,000 viewers. Says CBC Vice President Ronald Fraser: "We do not degrade viewers to a type...
...plan advanced by Conlon Associates Ltd. of California for two-step U.S. recognition of Communist China and the "Republic of Taiwan" does not present devastatingly new policy or argument. What is unusual is that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should raise the issue of recognition without jeopardizing the political future of any "recognition" advocates. Senator Fulbright, who seemed to be praising with faint damns, called the private agency's report "thought-provoking," adding, "I do not believe that the United States should recognize Communist China at the present time...
...immediate concern to Communist China is Formosa, but, Dillon said, "There can be no glossing over the danger that an attempt to seize Taiwan and the offshore islands is just as likely to embroil the world community in total war as is the launching of any other type of war. There can be no exceptions in the matter of peaceful settlement of disputes . . . We earnestly hope Peking will see the light...
...rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...