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To: synchro who wrote (1409)	3/15/1998 9:10:00 AM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2951

synchro, Thanks for telling us, from a personal view, the experience of coming to grip with the legacy of Chiang. An interesting sidebar is that even the Russians preferred Chiang over Mao. This in spite of the brutal slaughter of innocent workers and CCP members in Shanghai by affiliates of Chiang better known as The Green Tong. Chiang used political conniving and treachery to claim the mantle passed on by Sun Yat Sen, who was acknowledged by many as the father of the Chinese revolution. Not too many people were fooled especially Mdm. Sun who spent her latter years in Beijing and her beloved Shanghai. She was on the platform when Mao celebrated the taking of Beijing in 1949. What is even more interesting is that her sister was Mdm. Chiang, and her brother was Chiang's chief financial expert, who bilked the U.S. of billions in aid that ended up lining the pockets of the nationalist and their gangster affiliates. All three were members of the famous Soong family. After Sun's death there were irrevocable splits between the left (CCP) and the centrist and right factions of the revolution. That Roosevelt and specifically Henry Luce Booth were so enamored with Chiang, and thus so taken in by him, is a lesson the U.S. did not learn well. Since then we have gone on and spent billions as well as American lives propping up brutal dictatorships in the name of holding the line against communism. This includes Nguyen Van Thieu, Sukarno, and many others. One brutal despotic dictator is as bad as another, to be certain. Best, Stitch