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...Formosa, Nationalist China's austere President Chiang Kaishek, for the moment at least a bystander to history, turned 70, still dreamed of recapturing the Chinese mainland, still showed no signs that the Red Chinese newspapers he reads each morning at breakfast are spoiling his appetite...
...Herbert Hoover, Jr., is not the man for the job either. A professional engineer, Hoover has a spotty record on his stints as Acting Secretary. Notwithstanding his earlier achievement on Iranian oil, he blundered in April 1955 when he refused to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on Formosa unless Chiang was there as an "equal." When Dulles returned to the job, this decision was reversed. His handling of the Saudi Arabian tank deal was also far from adequate, and finally led to a reversal by Mr. Eisenhower...
Secretary Dulles' resolutions last night have been no more help than the President's calming reassurances. Certainly, the Israelis must return to Israel and fire must cease. But the threat that the General Assembly will stay in session until these things occur is the emptiest one since Chiang Kai-shek intimated that he might reconquer the Chinese mainland...
...Formosa, much the same situation exists. Chiang Kai-Shek is also an old man and his military regime is not producing any long-range political or economic developments. Again there is a feeling of waiting
...half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in the old days, but these projects are considered more plausible because of the Communists' ruthless ability to mobilize whole armies of forced labor...