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...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
...President, have you given any personal assurance or made any commitment to Chiang Kai-shek that we would help defend Quemoy and Matsu if those islands were attacked...
...President Eisenhower in 1955 sent his "personal assurance" to Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, thereby "satisfying him" that the U.S. would help defend Quemoy and Matsu, the islands in the Strait of Formosa off the Red Chinese mainland...
...left Mr. Beal's central thesis substantially unchallenged.'' As for the Quemoy-Matsu question, the Times pointed out: "Mr. Beal's book did not say that President Eisenhower had made a 'commitment.' The burden of Mr. Beal's report was that Chiang had misgivings about U.S. intentions and that President Eisenhower had been able to mollify him with a personal letter...
...French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable job of chauffeur for the French government in Saigon gave him more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World War II, he deserted the French and sold his talents...