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Does this mean that Chiang accepts-and would even wish to bring on-World War III? Today's world might not be prepared to accept Chiang's answer, for it runs counter to accepted habits of thought. His "counterattack" on the mainland, says Chiang Kaishek, will not bring on a general war: in fact, it is the only way World War III can be avoided, for so long as the mainland of China is in Communist hands, a third world war will always be possible and perhaps likely...
...interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President's face. The visitor instinctively rises and takes his leave. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, frail and formidable in his black gown and skullcap, bows his visitor out without moving from his place...
...Bitter Grapes. Many of the U.S.'s top officials have come to this cool veranda, worried, harassed, urgent. Chiang's visitors emerge with no pronouncements made, no decisions taken, but with the sensation that Chiang imparts-that they are men of like mind on the issues that really matter, and that to be of like mind with the Generalissimo is a thing of importance. In a time of confused issues and uncertain men, his sureness is so intense that he diffuses an air of tranquillity...
...among the foxes of the world, Chiang Kai-shek long ago found the hedgehog's one big thing: the world's primary and implacable enemy was and is the Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who wanted him to fight Japanese instead of Communists), in the 1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were...
...President of Nationalist China will hear no talk of settling down on a neutralized Formosa. Chiang Kai-shek does not believe this is one of the possibilities open to him or to the world, no matter how much well-intentioned diplomats try to bring off a settlement. On this basic point he and his Communist enemy (to judge by the enemy's words) are in complete agreement...