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To: Bosco who wrote (9164)	8/21/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Bosco and all, I finally made the time to look around the Web to educate myself a little more about Taiwan/Formosa. For some historical perspective, check out uta.edu. One must always consider the source when reading such things, but nonetheless, when taking history into account things are always more complicated than we would like them to be. Something for everyone in the following quote: <<Viewed against the background of the Chinese Civil War, the February 28 Incident and the ensuing March Massacres also proved with brutal finality that the Chinese Communists did not win China, but that Chiang Kai-shek and his entourage lost it by their corruption, inefficiency, suppression and murder. The island, when Chiang Kai-shek took over, was a going concern with little or no Communist influence. A few months later, it was little more than a prison house, a paradise turned into a Devil's island Said Mr. George Kerr, American Vice Consul in Taipei in 1947,".... Chen Yi and the Generalissimo have given the Chinese Communists immense advantages in Formosa without Communists having lifted a finger, .. Every educated Formosan now have ample reason to tremble for his life and property; they anticipate a period of violent military suppression, complete economic disruption, uprising and anarchy, all making a fertile field for communism where before Communism was practically non-existent". However, it is in worldwide perspective that the February 28 Incident has its REVOLUTIONARY significance. Prime Minister U Nu of Burma said at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 3, 1955: "The ideas and ideals, the ringing words and slogans of the American Revolution, have a tremendous emotional importance to all men who struggle for Liberty. In all parts of the world where men live under tyranny, or under foreign domination or in feudal bondage, those who dream and plot and fight for freedom, do so in the name of the eternal principles for which your (American) Revolution was fought. In those parts of the world, the ideas of the American Revolution are today the most explosive of all forces, more explosive in their capacity to change the world than B-52' 5 or even atomic bombs". >> uta.edu For more on Taiwan, this same prof has a more general page on Taiwan: uta.edu