Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief concern of all the CHINCOM nations was the effect on U.S. public opinion of any seeming concession to Red China. Then the U.S. embassy in Taipei was sacked by a Nationalist Chinese mob. Reasoning that U.S. annoyance at Formosa would make U.S. reaction more even-tempered, Britain seized the opportunity to announce that it was going to act alone. Two days later British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd told a cheering Commons that though Britain would continue to cooperate with CHINCOM, "in the future we shall adopt the same lists for China and the Soviet bloc...
...with two or three years in jail. Instead, the court-martial's verdict last week, on a basic plea of self-defense, was "not guilty." By this time, emotions were running so high that Reynolds, his wife and seven-year-old daughter had to be rushed out to Taipei airport escorted by 67 police, hustled aboard a U.S. Air Force plane and flown off to Manila...
...tinder of trouble had been piled higher than anyone knew. The suspicions reflected by the editorials were joined, in the minds of Taipei's Chinese, with the accumulated frustrations of seven years of exile and political uncertainty, and by a general but seldom articulated feeling of irritation and resentment against the better-paid, better-clad and better-housed Americans (and other foreigners) in the capital...
Several embassy employees and members of the Marine guard were stoned and beaten. In isolated parts of Taipei individual Americans and other foreigners were set upon or driven into hiding. The U.S. Information Service office was completely destroyed. On the walls rioters painted anti-U.S. slogans in English and Chinese. Said one: "Kick Out the American Devils." Said another, more indicative of Taipei's mood: "Don't Behave Like Russians...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...