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...next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound in the matter all week)-could meet as the Security Council, then appoint a special heads-of-state committee to talk informally in Secretary General Hammarskjold's office...
Midway in World War II a slight, intense Chinese woman delivered to the U.S. Congress a memorable plea that turned out years later to have been a fateful warning. She was Shanghai-born, Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that...
That warning delivered, Mme. Chiang flew off to New Orleans to see an old friend and fellow freedom fighter whose sentiments were similar: Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 67, the old commander of the Flying Tigers, who is now fighting a tough battle against lung cancer in Ochsner Foundation Hospital. "I can't talk very well," said Chennault, sitting on the edge of his hospital bed. Said Mme. Chiang with a smile: "Well, you always talked too much anyway. I want to do the talking this time." And she added a final word to the old Flying Tiger that...
...Strict One. Tiny, tough Chen Cheng, who comes from the Gimo's home province of Chekiang, first caught his boss's eye after he was wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south...
...under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues for giving elaborate parties. One of his four sons is working his way through M.I.T., his two daughters are studying at Georgia Wesleyan. His wife is a devout Christian, who attends Madame Chiang's prayer meetings, but Chen...