Search

The article presents world news briefs as of October 31, 1960. There has been debate in the U.S. over whether the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or the U.S. military should be in charge of satellites that have a commercial application. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has enacted an embargo on exports to Cuba. Editor Lei Chen was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a military court in Formosa.

The article focuses on the arrest of Lei Chen, publisher of Formosa's ineffective opposition "Free China Fortnightly," on sedation charges. It notes that Chen aims to form a China Democratic Party to give the Kuomintang its first real opposition. The Taipei government also arrested Chen's business manager Ma Chih-su and former accountant and secretary Liu Tzu-ying.

The article reports on the case of Formosan publisher Lei Chen who has been sent to jail for attempting to set up an opposition political party. It notes that China's most eminent scholar and former Chinese Nationalist ambassador Hu Shih has demanded an open civil trial for Lei Chen. It reveals that Hu is a close friend of Chiang Kai-shek, but he has been a leading exponent of Formosa's need for a responsible opposition.

The article offers updates on the politics and government in China under the leadership of President Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist Party in 1960. It highlights the formation of two opposition parties in Formosa to fight Kai-shek's Kuomintang Party. It also explores the establishment of the China Democratic Party by publisher Lei Chen and its potential threat on the Nationalist government of Kai-shek.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one on international disputes in the October 3, 1960 issue, the attitude of wives of political candidates on spending for their clothes in the September 26, 1960 issue, and the arrest of Chinese Nationalist Lei Chen in the September 19, 1960 issue.

The article comments on various political developments and issues surrounding the U.S. The United States has scored another diplomatic triumph in the United Nations (UN) and every newspaper, every radio and TV station broadcast the glad tidings to the citizenry. The General Assembly's steering committee, by a vote of twelve in favor, seven opposed and one abstaining, recommended rejection of the Soviet Union's request for debate on the question of seating Red China in the UN. Meanwhile, Nikita Sergeyewich Khrushchev to supplant Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold with a three-man executive board is not taken very seriously at the United Nations.

This article presents news including the Richard Nixon's run for governor in California, the scheduling of Jimmy Hoffa, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to stand trial in the District of Columbia for an assault on an official of the union at its headquarters in Washington, and the appointment of retired Admiral Kirk as the Ambassador to Taipei, Taiwan.

The article presents information on the political developments in Taiwan during the late 1960's. Taiwan is a repressive police state in which, at last, head of Nationalist government Chiang Kai-shek has found an area small enough to rule with relative efficiency. Not that corruption is absent. It is all-pervasive, but it too is an instrument of control. The readiness to engage in corrupt activities would seem to be a necessary condition for power and a symbol of loyalty to Chiang. Denouncing a man for corruption serves the dual purpose of appearing virtuous and maintaining control. In addition, Chiang has at his disposal the secret police and a huge system of minor informers. In large measure the people police themselves, convinced-by frequent and arbitrary arrests, executions and censorship-that silence is safest.

The article presents an update on issues influencing international relations as of November 5, 1960. In resolving the crisis in the Congo, the United Nations (UN) is facing a problem caused by the efforts of the 15 Afro-Asian nations contributing to the UN forces to have the deposed Premier, Patrice Lumumba, return to power. The West German government has decided to take several actions to reduce the pressure on the U.S. dollar, including a small cut in the German bank rate.

Focuses on political and economic issues surrounding the United Nations (UN) and the U.S. Consideration of the UN to provide admission to Red China; Resolution passed by the Soviet Union and the U.S. against the admission of China in the UN; Efforts of the United Nations to stop communist movement in China; Role of the U.S. to promote the affiliation of Afro-Asian and neutral groups to the UN; Features of the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon; Contradictions in attitude of Nixon towards the Indo-Chinese conflict; Decrease in the gross national product of the U.S.