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...material for this week's cover story on K. C. Wu, governor of threatened Formosa, has been drawn from many sources, including firsthand guidance from John Osborne, TIME-LIFE senior correspondent in the Far East. Osborne took off for the Far East a month before the Korean war began. It was a new experience for a seasoned correspondent whose geographical beat during the last 20 years has been mainly Europe and the Americas...
...that history assigned them, had never met before. Last week, at long last, the two fighters stood side by side in the same battle. After months of snubbing the Nationalists on Formosa, Washington had begun to see the one fact that counted about Chiang. Formosa's Governor K.C. Wu had sharply stated that fact: "The only force in this part of the world with a sizable anti-Communist army, with a leadership that has a popular following and with the will to fight, is the Nationalist government...
...purely a military matter. A large, vocal body of U.S. opinion has persistently suggested that the Nationalists are not fit allies for the U.S. The Chinese who are building a stronghold on Formosa today should tell Americans another story. One of the most important of these Chinese is Governor Wu...
...power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going to make it from the outside...
...Chinese Nationalist government this week announced the execution in Formosa of three men and a woman: Lieut. General Wu Shih, former Vice Minister of Defense; Lieut. General Chen Pao-chong, former conscription boss; Colonel Nyi Shih and Miss Tsu Kan-tse. Charged with having plotted to deliver Formosa to the Communists, they had been under arrest since last March when a secret radio transmitter was found in the Defense Ministry...