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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...
...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...
...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...