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When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland to Formosa in 1949, only four diplomatic missions followed him-the U.S., the Philippines. Korea and France. Since then, though there has been a constant clamor to oust Chiang and to seat Communist China in the U.N., only 18 non-Communist nations have recognized the Red regime in Peking. But 44 nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt...
...establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...What of Chiang Kaishek, the man, at 70? The only personal note permitted to appear is in a short preface-moving and intensely Chinese. Writes Chiang...
What to Do? Valuable as is Chiang's story of China's disaster, his analysis of overall Communist methods and theory is perhaps the most important part of his book. It is, in fact, a primer whose lessons by now should be-but are not-elementary in the foreign offices of anti-Communist and neutralist countries. Chiang demolishes the widespread, fatalistic notion that the growth of Asian Communism is the "natural result of backwardness.'' It is, above all, the result of deliberate policy and must be countered by deliberate policy. What is needed in the West...
This notion, as Chiang sees it, means paralysis. The West, moreover, ought to stop coddling neutralist nations. Instead, its overall policy should be a coordinated campaign of "indirect warfare" for "liberation" of the peoples enslaved by the new-Red imperialism. This drive should be pushed on all fronts-political, economic, social, psychological, military. Chiang strongly implies that his Formosa army and other anti-Communist Asian forces should be allowed to attack Red China in Russia's rear-without open U.S. involvement. He also suggests that this could be done without provoking a general war. (Such notions, Chiang concedes with...