from the Com- munists on the mainland:
"For the stubborn aging (63)leader, the flight across the sampan-flecked Strait of Formosa was a time for bitter remembrance. . . . He had broken warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression, only to go down before IMao Zedong's armies] and the corruption which grew up in his own wartorn regime. . . . Chiang would try to fight on Formosa though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic...