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...planes had been operated by Nationalist China's government-owned CNAC and CATC. As Communist armies overran the mainland, the lines retreated to Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield. There, last November, most of their Chinese personnel declared allegiance to the Communists (TIME, Nov. 21) and shooed off Nationalist officials...
...Tak airfield, exultant Chinese Communist mechanics painted Red flags on 71 fuselages...
...CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads of pilots and crewmen chose instead to slip off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic British colonial courts. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham flatly announced that British recognition...
...second time since their arrival in Korea, Americans and Russians were meeting to discuss the establishment of a free Korean government-after the period of sin tak was over. Sin tak had a particularly ugly sound to Korean ears. Meaning both trusteeship and guardianship, it was used by the Japanese when they first muscled into Korea under cover of a "Treaty of Guardianship" after the Russo-Japanese...
Whatever their politics, a majority of Koreans are dead set against a continuing sin tak. Most outspoken foes are old, Princetonian (Ph.D. 1910) Syngman Rhee and his big rightist coalition. Said Rhee last week: "More good can come to Korea if this present conference breaks than if it comes to an agreement. If I were General Hodge . . . I would not waste time talking with the Russians...