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...official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent to an old soldiers' home, preferably one with barbed wire around it," and sneeringly referred to the Chinese Nationalist armed forces as a "rubber dagger" and a "toothless tiger...
...arrival in Tokyo Charlie Porter was understandably hesitant about going on to Formosa. At his request, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II made some discreet inquiries, assured Porter that he was still welcome. He was. Although Chiang was, unsurprisingly, too preoccupied to see him, the top officials of the Nationalist government turned out to greet Porter at a dinner at the home of the U.S. chargé d'affaires, on the day of his arrival. Sensing a certain "strain in the air," Porter opened the conversation jovially: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view...
...Taipei to celebrate his 72nd birthday after an inspection trip of Quemoy, Nationalist China's President Chiang Kai-shek vetoed all hoopla because of recent floods...
...retirement from the U.S. Army after 50 years of service, duty again was thrust on him. Truman appointed him his special envoy with ambassador's rank, sent him to China with orders to try to bring a peace between China's Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would attend his efforts in the Orient...
Died. Li Chi-shen, 75, volatile vice chairman of Red China's National People's Congress, onetime top-ranking soldier of Chiang Kai-shek who led a bloody purge against the Communists in 1927, served as Chiang's chief of staff (1928), often quarreled with the Generalissimo, decisively in 1947 when at the height of the military crisis he tried to form a third party of liberals and warlords to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists; of cancer and a cerebral thrombosis; in Peking...