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...down at his dining-room table and wrote a long, careful letter to the National Assembly meeting in For mosa. Last week, charging that the National regime had suppressed parts of it, Wu published its contents. Said he: "I don't want to wreck the Formosan regime, but it must reform." His theme: to return to the mainland, the Formosa regime must have the "fullhearted support" not only of the Chinese in Formosa, on the mainland and overseas, but also of the free world. The Nationalist regime is endangering this support by its undemocratic practices. Wu listed them bluntly...
...busiest weeks since he took office, President Eisenhower also received President Remón of Panama (who brought Panamanian Indian costumes for the Eisenhower grandchildren), Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such...
...living room of a Formosan cottage, incense from a burning joss stick rose fragrantly before an image of Buddha. Opposite, in a wicker chair flanked by two bold parrots, sat one of the most talked about and least known generals in the null century Orient. His long, hard body was encased in the folds of a grey Chinese gown and he jogged on one knee his five-year...
...asked to, but only if asked to, Chiang Kai-shek is willing to reconsider his 1950 offer of three Formosan divisions to fight with the U.N. armies in Korea. "That offer . . . was refused," Tsiang said. "We understand the grounds for the refusal. [We have not] renewed our offer . . . We ourselves are not convinced that Korea is the best place for the Free Chinese to make a contribution...
...liberated from the Japanese occupation in 1945, I felt that the English language should be promoted . . . in order that our people could absorb Western culture and exchange ideas with American and European countries. I had five associates with similar ideas, and we organized under the name of the Formosan Magazine Press. Our first venture was a monthly magazine in English . . . But the economic fluctuations of those days in Formosa were too much for us, and we suspended publication after ten months...