Word: chiangs
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...late. Frank Church of Idaho, a liberal who had always supported foreign aid, renounced it in an emotional speech. Freshman Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida added his voice of dissent; others, too, joined in. The humiliating diplomatic rebuff suffered by the U.S. only a few days before, when Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese government-in-exile had been chucked out of the U.N. in spite of energetic American lobbying, still rankled. The last Senate speaker was Harry Byrd Jr. of Virginia. His final words: "Mr. President, I shall vote against this bill...
...August 1965 that only the richest country in the world [the U.S.] could come to the help of the poorest [China]. As for Taiwan, I think mainland China and Formosa agreed long ago that Taiwan would become part of Mao's China after the death of Chiang Kai-shek...
World War II ended, after a loss of 22 million Chinese lives, with Chiang nominally the ruler of all China, one of the world's Big Five, and a founding father of the U.N. But the generalissimo soon proved unable to govern his ruined country. Corruption reigned, abetted by hoarding, inflation, hunger -and, as Chiang himself later admitted, "organizational collapse, loose discipline and low spirits of [our] party members." When Mao's Communist forces besieged Peking, early in 1949, Chiang's defenders defected to the enemy and Chiang himself resigned the presidency. For six months, while city...
Politically, as the balance of world recognition continues shifting from Chiang to Mao, it becomes doubtful that 2,000,000 mainland refugees can continue indefinitely their authoritarian rule over 12 million Taiwanese. Many Taiwanese, descendants of early settlers from Kwangtung and Fukien provinces, want self-government, but when they rebelled in 1947, Chiang's troops massacred about 10,000 of them...
...alternative, which some experts predict will happen in as few as five years, is reunification-a euphemism for Peking's takeover. Last week, not for the first time, there were widespread rumors that Chiang Ching-kuo actually visited the mainland recently for secret talks with the Communists. Officials in Taipei once again denied any possibility of a deal with the mainland, but when the elder Chiang departs, even reunification is not inconceivable...