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...where the hell Formosa is and what's going on there." Stukus filed some earnest Hemingway-like prose, scored a major beat by wrangling an exclusive interview with Chiang Kaishek. Though the session produced nothing new, Scott delightedly ran Footballer Stukus' picture cheek by jowl with the Gimo on the front page...
...doing, the Generalissimo also gave a strong hint of his future plans. If General Chen does the usual efficient job the Gimo expects from him, he may well succeed to the presidency in 1960. At that time the Gimo, who is 70, will complete his second six-year term, and Taipei is betting that he will not ask to have the constitution changed to permit a third. Instead, he is expected to turn over the presidency to Chen, and continue to have a hand in things by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...
...Strict One. Tiny, tough Chen Cheng, who comes from the Gimo's home province of Chekiang, first caught his boss's eye after he was wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south...
...airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
Double Cross? Last year Sun was kicked upstairs to the empty job of personal chief of staff to Chiang, and installed in a pair of tiny, dark rooms. People said that the Gimo was keeping him near enough to watch. He was almost never asked to high command conferences...