Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa, the Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
With foaming indignation, the government of Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa gave its answer to K. C. Wu, the onetime governor of Formosa who last week bombarded Chiang's regime with charges of one-man, one-party domination and of autocracy bordering on tyranny (TIME, March...
...Kuomintang (National Party) labeled Wu's charges "malicious," and expelled him from the party. ¶ The National Assembly asked the Central government to recall the former governor from Evanston, 111., where he is living in self-imposed exile, to Formosa to stand trial on charges of "maladministration" during his service as Formosa's governor...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek formally ousted Wu as a Minister Without Portfolio in the Nationalist regime, bringing to an end 22 years' association in the turbulent ups & downs of Chinese politics...
...renegade, there was bitter resentment among men who stayed on. Others charged that he was trying to forestall a supreme court probe of charges of irregularities in his conduct as governor. The Assembly's 85-man presidium snapped: "The presidium views with utter contempt K. C. Wu's action and utterances, which it considers as giving aid and comfort to the Communists, inasmuch as he is . . . in the sanctuary of a foreign country, smearing and attacking the government [with] malicious propaganda...