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Luce has often been criticized as a leader of the China Lobby. Elson shows that his support of Chiang Kai-shek was actually quite ambiguous. Luce felt that Chiang, as the official wartime ally of the U.S., deserved at least as much postwar support as De Gaulle. But he gave a hearing and ample space to his anti-Chiang correspondent in China, Teddy White. Luce even tried to "get off the hook with Chiang" after he refused to accept General Marshall's proposals to face the realities of Nationalist China. From then on, Luce continued to lobby personally...
...have Chiang Kai-shek's representatives in the U.S.," said Chou. "Once you realize that Taiwan is a province of China, that will solve everything...
...crow. A full house of his colleagues heard him expatiate on his recent visit to China. "The Chinese system," he admitted, "is achieving a much greater degree of practical success than most Americans, and certainly I, had supposed." Coming from an old China hand, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, a relentless past critic of Mao Tse-tung's "disordered, paranoiac government," Alsop's new tone-both in print and on the rostrum-comes across as a marked mellowing. But he is still the master of the ominous prediction; he asserted that the Soviets will decide within three...
...little like one of those "rehabilitations" that mysteriously occur when policies change behind the Iron Curtain, for Service had been dismissed from the State Department in 1951 because of "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. Among other things, he was guilty of predicting that the Communists would defeat Chiang's Nationalists. Service went to court and won reinstatement in 1957 but never again served in an important post (he now works at Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies...
There is concern for the uncertain period that will follow the death of Chiang Kai Shek, but this is an academic question to a non-academic people...