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Through the years, death, division and defection removed almost all the old Chinese Nationalist figures who fought at the side of President Chiang Kaishek. But after 35 years, one of the ablest of the young officers who taught at Chiang's famous Whampoa Military Academy in the '20s still serves his chief with conspicuous devotion. Last week, to instill discipline and order in a government that has lost much authority through parliamentary squabbling and faltering leadership, the President accepted the resignation of respected but ailing Banker-Premier O. K. Yui and named as Premier his tested old troubleshooter...
...nation's "corruption, nepotism, jobbery and unseemly haste to amass wealth by crooked gains and avoidance of taxation. All these sores of the body politic grow larger and larger every day." He went on: "Our present degradation is leading the country to the same morass in which Chiang Kai-shek's China found itself. There was no rescue in China from the jaws of Communism. But in India we had one hope. If a man like Mr. Nehru could shed the glamour of office, he could, perhaps-it is a small chance-bring back the only organized party...
...Britain were to vote at the U.N. for the admission of the Chinese government and the exclusion of the Chiang Kai-shek representative," Chou En-lai promised to behave better. "It mattered not whether Britain were voted down: probably she would be in a minority," Wilson was told. "But if at any rate her position were made clear, China would immediately agree to the exchange of ambassadors...
...other fields. He organized a U.S. cryptographic bureau during World War I, won a Distinguished Service Medal for breaking the Japanese diplomatic code, and told about it after the war in the bestselling The American Black Chamber.* Between wars he served in China as a cryptanalyst for Chiang Kaishek. But whatever he did, wherever he went, his greatest pleasure always came from poker...
...politics-conscious people on Formosa agreed that the political atmosphere was more tense than at any time in years. The legislators showed no signs of backing down in their campaign for more authority, despite Chiang Kai-shek's pleas to avoid rocking the boat. In some quarters there were even mutterings about trying to form an opposition to the Kuomintang. But nowhere in the grumbling was there any threat to bolt Chiang's leadership in foreign policy or to try to make a deal with the mainland Reds. It was an internal squabble that Chiang would have...