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Your April 18 story of President Chiang Kai-shek is far above the average treatment of that controversial figure...
...Chiang is a dismal egotist with a devoted following of stupid, ruthless, cowardly gangsters. Chiang & Co. can no more be offered to the free world as China's answer to Communism than Senator McCarthy can be tolerated as America's answer. Shame on you for publishing that tearful eulogy...
...think the article is the clearest, fairest and most balanced statement I have seen about Chiang Kaishek, and the cause that he represents, in any current publication. I lived in Nanking from 1932 to 1936 when I was on the faculty of the University of Nanking . . . I have a great admiration and respect for the Generalissimo, for his integrity, patriotism and courage . . . The decade from 1927 to 1937 was generally considered the best period in Chinese history from the standpoint of efficiency and integrity, and it was only the pressing necessity of battling with the Japanese that knocked awry...
...Chiang Kai-shek may once have been useful to China. It does not necessarily follow that he is still useful . . . You place so much importance on Chiang's constant striving to do what is right for "his" people. Why is there not a plebiscite on Formosa, then, to discover just what the people think is right...
...Since 1944, there have been so many half truths and slanted accounts of Chiang in our newspapers and columnists' writings that it is refreshing to see your impartial and unbiased account . . . You admit that Chiang had some faults, some bad features in his government; but what puzzles me is that he commanded the respect of the nation, that he fought off the Japanese from...