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GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK appears this week on TIME'S cover for the tenth time-oftener than any other living man. Only the Generalissimo's archenemy, the late JOSEPH STALIN, had been a TIME cover subject so often. Runners-up: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, nine times; former PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN, SIR WINSTON CHUCHILL, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR and the late FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, eight each...
...Chiang was first portrayed OH the cover in 1927 as a grave young Nationalist leader and heir to DR. SUN YATSEN. His goal today is the same as it was then: the unification of all China. To put the goal in geographic perspective, TIME illustrates the story with graphic four-color maps of Formosa, mainland China in panorama, and an azimuthal equidistant projection (Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr.'s jawbreaking term for it) of the Generalissimo's target, Red China...
WHILE the fate of Chiang and China hinged on decisions in Peking and Washington, Sir Winston, keeping a firm rein ort his own fate, resigned-just when TIME said he would (TIME, April 4). Knowing that the Prime Minister had wavered in his decision for almost a year, I asked our London Bureau how it had been so sure of the date in advance. "On March 9, I had a drink with a politician I trust, and he told me the decision had been taken, that Churchill would resign in the first week of April,'' cabled Bureau Chief...
...From Chiang Kai-shek the U.S. Government has had clear notice that the Nationalists will defend Matsu and Quemoy at all cost. On-the-spot military observers give Chiang little or no hope of holding the offshore islands against Red invasion without U.S. intervention. Matsu, although farther from the mainland "than Quemoy, is considered more vulnerable because of its small size (roughly 7 sq. mi.). On Matsu Chiang has one regular division, all the troops (10,000) the island will accommodate efficiently. Dug in on Quemoy's 70 sq. mi. are about 50,000 Nationalist regulars, one-fifth...
...Quemoy and Matsu can be left to Chiang's forces, with the U.S. maintaining a static defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. U.S. land-based and carrier air power would fend off Red bombing attacks on Formosa, might possibly pursue the attackers to their bases. This alternative accepts the loss of Matsu and Quemoy...