INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL LI TSUNG-JEN/ HIS RELATIONS WITH DR HU SHIH

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• Case Number: F-2021-01777
• Publication Date: November 17, 1951

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'end he was more outepokenithis time than on pi vious ocCaoione when I visited him.
Illo ineieted tint the�Genetalisoied is still 66 main stumbling block to Chinese I
,national unitY, and that he ghlang Kai-sheg )pt only thOseIpeoplo; who '"obeyed II
,himn. Li Cited severallpast instances when officiala wei.elrorced cnit of office because
'they disobeyed or questioned'hislOrdere. Li sees'ne hope!orfuture for the Nation-
itilietjGovernmtntIon the mainland III, He believee that if Chiang Kai-tihek invaded thei
, ! Imainland he bkuld not find any !support ftomth comnon PbOple,Hthdy still remember
11 ' Ike adminietratiOn. He fUrthet! insisted that 1 nyIef thelformor'KUomintang members
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I !and officiallfIthe Nationalist Covernmentlwh defectedlto the Peiping regime
1 ;WoUld,net,re-iefect andaupPOrtl!aNationalietl nvasion Of the Mainland:, Li said
I I these. former ilationalints1 were peOple 01 hadIbeen'perseCuted by'atang for the .
II ipast 20 years. they would certainly nev. r rally aroundlChianpragain should he ro-
i !appear.onthe[mainland6�Li. did net mention,wh4t. tyke or; itwort oA lack of support
� 1 'Chiang might et from the anti,CoMmunist guert has on the mainland. ,
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H3. !While' Li gave a virtual:b blanket indictment of he TaiwanrOovernment, he admitted '
, Italat not all .heIpeople 01 the Wand le oba H.� !The Only hope ana salvation, Li::
il r in the fluture of China was m ill in . ,flthi d releelo bl composed! pf independent,
, liberal, an Lemocratit, elements I!, Ho did not onti ti any 'particular. individual Or
i ..: i'ztoup! in or o!t Of thelf0ernmen who conid:me t the eiialifications.1 However, he
activities. e dik: not anticipate any e rly s lut
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' idid say that me of these tuturIleador must CoMo froMthelyounger generation, many
.ef whom' ere liill unknOwn and:have never partl ipat d ii0overnmentJ or public!!'
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:/ interviewed Vide President Li rsung-jer at he privet residence in ,Riverdale,
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iNew York,!foriover an hour I . ! The l st.time I visited withlhim:wae. in!:!
�,A0ril'195L Fe' is still'living.in the same rilted:houee with his Wife! and Chinese,
'IMaid and appeared in goodlhealthL He said he lap het been away frem New York be�:
'cause Of his iInabilityje,drive'lvcar orlIto epeak'Mnglibh. . Apparently, however, he
!continuesAo 't43colve ptivatelreporte fro hieleources ml Hone Kong concerning the
not correaponded with:his former!
si,,who he!lays in being kept under
octet police force.
anp KAt.rn#N still vory critical '.
�China mainland and TaiWan bUt: he eat ho ha
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Li was depressed because. 4e could not sayWhan he couldi [
"go home'. .H indicated ,
that, he did not plan to 1 aire the US4nthe;Ilear future,'and scouted reports from.
.Indochina that he -would direct the snti4Cmmunist.forcee in South China when an ;
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Li also related to Me a story aboUtjGOVernor,Thoma E De1413304, recent visit
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President Chiang Kai-shekls office there., Li ,s inforMant said thel Generalissimo
was very displeased with Governor DeWey,andlaccorded him a ;chilli, reception'. The
Generalissimo blames Mr John Fosterj)ullea for faiiure to include Nationalist China
the San Francisco japanes Peace Conferencelio, He ie said to have'toldCoverhor
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Dewey that since Mr .Dulles was his advisor' On foreign.affaira her/ye-way/ shOuld
have persuaded Mr Dulles to invite;Nitionalist China tolSan tiranciseO. , Governor
Dewey is said to have explained to the GeneralissiMo' that it that :time Mr !Dulles was
working for the TrumanAdMinistration and the Generaliseimo should.therefore not put
the entire blame oh. the Republicans or Mr personallY,
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Dr, Hu Shin, former Ambassa or to thelUS;_haal seeing General Li Tsung..
Jen. He told Me that he hi decided �nst es no interest in a "third force,' or in' Li personally. :
He, said that if, he, had a Meeting with Li theinews Would be circulated and it Might
be interpreted in Taiwan that he gig was !pitting with I tO form an1 Opposition
party against the Generalisiimo. H 1
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