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Urgent Call. The next question was whether France could keep its diplomatic relations with "both Chinas." Paris seemed willing to do so, and Red China might well go along. Faced with the "incredible" reports of De Gaulle's action, a special policy committee of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang party scheduled an emergency session. On the basis of precedent, Formosa seemed to have no alternative but to sever relations with France...
...sympathy to Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu and her family. I wish to remind those who vilified her late husband and brother-in-law that they were perhaps far less guilty than those who set themselves up as their judges. Put them beside a Khrushchev, a Tito, or even a Chiang Kaishek, and they were like innocent lambs. May God grant them eternal rest...
...mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with the Generalissimo is that he doesn't do any generalissimoing." And once after a tough session with Soviet delegates at the U.N., he snapped, "They remind me of a difficult fellow I knew in Texas. He once...
...Chinese may be a long way from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...
Otherwise the old fighter's birthday seemed serene. At his hilltop residence outside Taipei, Chiang spent the day quietly with his family and followed Chinese custom by eating the traditional "longevity noodles." The most elaborate birthday gift came from a group of wealthy Chinese living in Thailand: $750,000 for a basketball stadium in Taipei. In island-wide celebrations, a choral group of 10,000 soldiers sang birthday songs, toasts were proposed for Chiang's health at thousands of dinners, and a spruce detachment of Nationalist Chinese "WAVES" paraded smartly. Chiang still clings to an old hope. Spotting...