Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a year ago, K. C. Wu was Nationalist China's bright, particular star. He was an outspoken advocate of democracy among the Kuomintang's quarreling cliques, an honest official among many who were not. Chiang Kai-shek himself had picked able Administrator Wu as the governor of Formosa...
...last spring Wu abruptly resigned, went into voluntary political exile in the U.S. For ten months, Wu watched from a modest hotel in Evanston, Ill., lectured in U.S. cities, and kept his silence. Three weeks ago he sat down at his dining-room table and wrote a long, careful letter to the National Assembly meeting in For mosa. Last week, charging that the National regime had suppressed parts of it, Wu published its contents. Said he: "I don't want to wreck the Formosan regime, but it must reform." His theme: to return to the mainland, the Formosa regime...
...Wu dated the change in climate from the entry of Chinese Communists into the Korean war. "More American aid came for Formosa. The rulers began to feel more secure in their position, and old ideas which led us to our downfall on the mainland reared up their ugly heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport...
...Wu, with a long career of service behind him (mayor of wartime Chungking, postwar mayor of Shanghai), still has hopes for the Nationalist cause. "But if the Gimo will press for these needed reforms . . ." said he, "the Chinese people will gladly back the Nationalist government. If he does not do so, not only our hope of ever recovering the mainland of China is lost, but he may find himself even unable to defend effectively Formosa in the not too distant future...
Last week the government announced that Wu had been cleared of all charges, and that his resignation as minister without portfolio would be accepted...