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Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...
Last week, as Quemoy endured the fifth week of its ordeal and the Warsaw talks showed no progress, Chiang's attitude hardened. The last advocate of restraint among his advisers had fallen silent. Chiang reportedly urged his case in a series of lunches and meetings in Taipei with U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumwright, Admiral Harry Felt, commander in chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, and Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, U.S. commander in the Formosa area...
...Chiang argues that the Nationalist air force can do the job alone. He also insists that the decision must come soon. No patriotic Chinese can accept the idea, he says, that the troops and civilians on Quemoy must, for some abstract moral reason, take artillery pounding until they starve to death...
...Chiang cannot and will not do anything without U.S. consent. So far, the U.S. was not in a mood to give that consent. But Chiang's impatience was a sharp reminder that the West could not shelve or solve Quemoy's problem simply by demanding that its defenders sit and take it (see box, opposite), in a battle they could not afford to lose and were not allowed...
...Meet the Press last week, Nationalist China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek asserted: "All over China they are crying out right now for the return of the Nationalist government." The Generalissimo himself has never ceased to insist that one day he will go back, although he has adjusted his thinking to changing circumstances...