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...there is his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, by an earlier marriage. The son's formal title is Deputy Secretary-General of the National Defense Council, but his real duties are as his father's troubleshooter. As head of the secret police and boss of the political officers in the armed forces, the son is chief guardian of the island's political security. As such, he is the most widely feared man on the island. A burly man of 46, Ching-kuo explains : "You must always remember that we have an enemy...
...danger is real: the Communists have tried hard to subvert Formosan loyalty. Three years ago a vice chief of staff was discovered to be a Communist spy. A few months ago two student pilots flew off to the Chinese mainland with an air-force trainer. But Chiang Ching-kuo insists that security cases are now down to two or three a month...
Formosa is not as politically free as the Philippines or Japan, but it is freer than South Korea. The press can and does criticize, so long as it does not appear to Chiang Kai-shek as obstructing the national effort or damaging the prestige of the government. After all, Chiang reminds critics...
...Armed Strength. The biggest immediate question mark is Chiang's armed forces. His army of 20-plus divisions has been brought up to full strength by energetic Defense Minister David Yu. It has 300,000 well-trained men. Most of them are, in a very real sense, picked men-picked by themselves when they made the decision to follow Chiang to Formosa rather than remain under the Communists. But the U.S. has not yet delivered equipment to the levels projected in 1951, although arms are now pouring in faster than the Chinese soldiers can be trained to use them...
Greatest doubt lies in the capability of Chinese command. Always haunted by the memory of defecting commanders on the mainland, Chiang makes it clear to commanders that his first requirement is unquestioning loyalty to himself. Thus, despite four years of U.S. effort, two major reorganizations and countless smaller ones, the primary requirement for responsible Chinese command is still personal. The determining characteristic of Chinese commanders is too often a paralyzing fear of taking any initiative without the Generalissimo's direct sanction...