Formosa Betrayed

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Copyright
The Heart of the Matter
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Formosa: Frontier Island (Map)
Introduction: A Frontier Tradition
PART ONE THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON 1941-1945
	I The Cairo Declaration
		Filling the Empty Files at Washington, 1942
		Intelligence Reports - Chinese Style
		Bombing Objective Folders and Propaganda
		Formosa\'s Future: The Battle of the Memoranda
		\"China Firsters\"
		The Fateful Cairo Declaration
	II \"Island X\'\'
		Operation Causeway: The Nimitz Plan to Seize Formosa
		Bombs Away!
		WJw Will Get the Prize?
		The Washington View in 1944 and 1945
		A Struggle for Place in the New Island Government
		The Chen Yi Appointment: Chiang Shows his True Colors
PART TWO THE CHINESE TAKE OVER
	III The Surrender on Formosa, 1945
		Formosa in Limbo
		September Liberators
		The Chinese Take Over - with Some Help
		A Matter of \"Face\" at Taipei
		The Formal Surrender, October 25, 1945
	IV Americans in Uniform
		The American Image: the \"God-Country\"
		All Eyes on the Americans in Uniform
		What Returning Formosan Labor-Conscripts Had to Say
		Wanted: Permanent Consular Representation at Taipei
	V A Government of Merchants
		The KMT Military Scavengers
		Formosan Reaction to the Nationalist Armed Forces
		The Stockpile Bonanza: Something for the Men at the Top
		The Chinese Commissioners Prepare to Build a New Formosa
		Nationalist Party Men as \"Tutors\" in Formosa
		The Confiscated Japanese Property Deal
	VI Chen Yi\'s \"Necessary State Socialism\'\'
		The Monopoly Mechanism
		\"lf You Can\'t Sell the Product, Sell the Plant!\"
		Ships and Rails: Communications in an Island World
		Crisis Behind the Scenes?
		Cutting the Formosan Pie Another Way
	VII Unwelcome Witnesses
		The Formosa Problem That Would Not Go Away
		Institutional Schizophrenia: The Amierican Consular Establishment
		Okinawans and Other Troublesome People
		Chinese Reaction to Foreign Critics: \"Getting the Facts Straight\"
	VIII The UNRRA-CNRRA Story
		The Peculiar UNRRA Program for China
		The Fraudulent CNRRA Program
		UNRRA\'s Battle of the Pescadores
		The Communications Stranglehold
		The Break-up of Public Health and Welfare Services
		Plague and Cholera Return: \"This is China Now\"
PART THREE CRISIS AND AFTERMATH
	FORMOSA (TAIWAN) (MAP)
	IX The Formosans\' Story: A Year of Disenchantment
		Law and Order Under the New Regime
		Representative Government and the Kuomintang
		The First Peoples\' Political Council Assembly versus Chen Yi
		The Development of Opposition Leadership
	X The Search for Recognition
		Intervention: Nanking, Tokyo, Washington, or the UN?
		The Formosan Press Fonnulates the Issues
		Is the U.S.A. Responsible?
		The Chiangs Visit Taipei
		American Propaganda Feeds the Fires of Discontent
		The Second PPC Assembly Brings the Crisis Near
		The Government\'s \"Hate Foreigners\" Campaign
	XI On the Eve of Disaster
		How the Match Was Laid
		Are Form.osans Brothers, Cousins, or Enemy Aliens?
		No Constitution in 1947?
		Fornwsa and the Crisis at Shanghai
		The February Monopolies
		A Formosan Appeal to General Marshall, Secretary of State
	XII The February Incident, 1947
		Murder in the Park and Mobs in the Street
		How to Settle the Incident?
		\"Formosans Attack the American Consulate!\"
		March 2: Chen Yi Concedes a Need for Change
		March 3: An Appeal for American Understanding
	XIII Town Meetings, American Style
		Island-wide Mobilization of Public Opinion
		The \"Star-Spangled Banner\" and All That
		Miss Snow Red and the Communists
		The Youth League and Local Political Expression
		The \"Thirty-two Demands\" - What the Formosans Wanted
		Reform - Not Rebellion
	XIV The March Massacre
		The Betrayal
		General Chen\'s Monday Morning View of the Situation
		What the Unwelcome Foreigners Saw
		The Generalissimo\'s View of the Affair on Formosa
	XV The Aftermath
		The American Position at Taipei
		Settling the Incident, Nationalist Party Style
		Chinese Press Notices and Propaganda in the United States
		The Situation in the American Embassy, Nanking
		Diplomatic Paralysis Sets In
	XVI The \"Reform Administration\'\'
		General Chen Yi Rewarded
		Dr. and Mrs. Wei\'s Reform Administration
		The Terror Continued
		General Wedenieyer\'s Visit
		Sun Fo: \"Communist Agents in the American Consulate?\"
		American Bases for Formosa?
	XVII The Retreat to Formosa
		How to Regain American Support?
		Chiang\'s Search for Assurance
		A Million Dollars for the Missionaries
		General Chen Cheng Prepares the Island Refuge
		Chinese Theatre: The Generalissimo \'\'Retires\"
PART FOUR FORMOSA BECOMES \"FREE CHINA\'\'
	XVIII Turning Point
		Saving Chiang in Washington
		Taipei, \"Temporary Capital of China\"
		Reform! Reform!
		Chiang Returns to the Presidency
		Chiang Saved - But Leashed
	XIX Formosa\'s \"Republican Decade\"
		Problems of Representation - and Misrepresentation
		MacArthur on Formosa
		The American Embassy\'s View of Formosa
		The Attack on the American Embassy in May, 1957
		The Missionary Picture
	XX Behind the Reform Facade
		Cooperation\'s Price Tag
		Dumping the Liberals
		A Case for Mr. Dulles
		Getting at the Facts: The Conlon Report
	XXI Two Chinas?
		Red China\'s Formosa
		Peking Prepares to Liberate Formosa
		\"Little China\" - the Chinese Liberals, Program
	XXII Free Formosa
		The Search for Independence
		Emerging Independence Leadership
		Japan as a Refuge from Both Chiang and Mao
		The \"Provisional Government\" at Tokyo
		New Voices Overseas
		An \"Appeal for Justice\"
APPENDICES
	Appendix I The Thirty-two Demands Presented by the Settlement Committee to Governor-General Chen Yi at Taipei, March 7, 1947
	Appendix II Dr. K. C. Wu\'s Views on the Police State and General Chiang Ching-kuo
NOTES
	Introduction
	I. The Cairo Declaration
	II. \"Island X\"
	III. The Surrender on Formosa, 1945
	IV. Americans in Uniform
	Chapters V and VI
	VII. Unwelcome Witnesses
	VIII. The UNRRA-CNRRA Story
	IX. The Formosans\' Story: A Year of Disenchantment
	X. The Search for Recognition
	XI. On the Eve of Disaster
	XII. The February Incident, 1947
	XIII. Town Meetings, American Style
	XIV. The March Massacre
	XV. The Aftermath
	XVI. The \'\'Reform Administration\'\'
	XVII. The Retreat to Fonnosa
	XVIII. Turning Point
	XIX. Formosa\'s \'\'Republican Decade\"
	XX. Behind the Reform Fa9ade
	XXI. Two Chinas?
	XXII. Free Formosa
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