Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, preparing for action, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reshuffled his government, dissolved the Kuomintang...
Central Executive Committee and replaced it with a "Central Reform Committee." Kuomintang spokesmen carefully explained that this move finally ended the power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going...
Last week from Formosa came an announcement of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang: T. V. Soong was no longer a member of the committee. In Manhattan, Soong made no comment...
...ever had much faith in Chiang's government, he lost it soon after the Japanese surrendered. He called the Kuomintang the "war party" and the Chinese Communists the "peace party" who survived "only because they have the support of millions who are not Communists...