March 2. As people come more and more to realize the true nature of Communism, the Communists lose the support they have gained in Western Europe, Government Spokesman Shen Chang-huan declared upon his return from Paris.
March 3. The Korean armistice talks came to a deeper deadlock with United Nations truce negotiators charging that the Communists had already been ignoring agreements reached earlier in the talks.
Four hundred and eighty Chinese prisoners of war in Pusan, appealed to the United Nations Command not to sent them back behind the Iron Curtain.
Government Spokesman Shen Chang-Huan said Free China's anti-Communist strength is far greater than that of Western Europe.
The United States Far Eastern Naval Headquarters in Tokyo officially announced that Vice Admired Robert P. Briscoe has assumed command of United States Seventh Fleet in place of Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin.
March 4. General Sun Li-jen, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, predicted that any Communist attempt to invade Taiwan would collapse "against a hard core of Nationalist defense that will surprise the world."
March 5. Chief Chinese and Japanese peace negotiators held the fourth informal talk in an attempt to break the present deadlock which resulted from a Japanese six-point document.
March 6. Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida told the Upper House Budget Committee that the proposed treaty between China and Japan had no political significance and would not commit Japan to side with Free China in the event of hostilities against the Communist regime.
President Truman asked Congress for $1,019,000,000 for military and economic aid to Asia and the Far East.
March 7. The US State Department announced that the United States has worked out a formula for the distribution of about $3,500,000 in property looted by Japan in wartime. According to the formula, China will receive twenty per cent of the property which Japanese forces looted from Allied territories.
The Japanese government dispatched Eiji Wajima, Chief of Foreign Affairs Bureau, to Taipei to assist Ambassador Isao Kawada in the current Sino-Japanese peace talks.
March 8. The MSA, CUSA and the JCRR jointly announced that the total budget for irrigation projects in Taiwan for this year has been set at TW$52,040,170, which will be paid wholly out of the United States aid special account.
March 9. The Chinese and Japanese peace negotiators went into another informal meeting while the probe into the cause of leakage of the Chinese peace draft is going on with full speed.
March 10. Governor K. C. Wu has worked out a three-point program for the reconstruction of Taiwan which has been submitted to the Executive Yuan for approval.
President Chiang received two visiting American Officers. Major General Floyd Parks and Major General Reuben Jenkins, who arrived in Taiwan March 9.
The Japanese Foreign Office Spokesman expressed regret over the untimely publication by the Japanese press of the text of the Chinese draft treaty and termed it an "unfortunate incident."
March 11. President Chiang appointed Cheng Yien-fen as Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission.
The JCRR announced its approval of a total of TW$2,516,565.91 and US$1,920 for assistance in carrying out rural reconstruction project during the month of February.
Chang Tao-fan was overwhelmingly elected the fourth President of the Legislative Yuan. Chang received 252 votes out of the 500 cast, leading the runner-up by 317 votes.
March 12. Free China marked the 27th death anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China. Trees were planted, as this day has been officially proclaimed Arbor Day.
Japan presented a new 14-article draft peace treaty which leaves out any mention of reparations but concedes the treaty to be a treaty of peace.
Air Lieutenant General Wang Shu-min was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force to succeed General Chou Chi-jou.
March 13. President Truman approved the separation of the Philippines-Formosa area from the Far East Command of General Matthew Ridgway. It was placed under Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet.
March 14. The MSA announced that $81,000,000 in its Far East Economic aid program has been earmarked for Taiwan for the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1952.
The Japanese revealed that Japan would eventually exchange ambassadors with the National Government of China soon after the signing of the Sino-Japanese bilateral peace treaty.
March 15. Governor K. C. Wu called on the people of Taiwan to make emergency power-cut in order to meet the critical rainless conditions on the Island.
March 16. The Taiwan economy would require a 15 per cent increase from the present level of industrial development to make the island self-supporting, according to Dr. Hubert G. Scheck, Chief of the MSA in Formosa, who left Taipei for Washington via Hongkong.
March 17. Reliable source indicated that the discrepancies in trade policies left China and Japan still wide apart in the current trade negotiations for the conclusion of a new trade agreement.
March 18. Air defense maneuvers took place in the whole island of Taiwan.
The Control Yuan gave blanket approval to President Chiang's nomination of seven new Chief Justices.
The US Senate voted to ratify the Japanese peace treaty. The vote was 66 for the resolution and 10 against.
March 19. Major General William C. Chase, Chief of MAAG in Taiwan, returned from a business trip in Washington. He told reporters that he was highly satisfied with results achieved during his Washington trip.
General Douglas MacArthur sharply criticized armistice negotiations in Korea, saying that their only noticeable result has been to permit Communist forces to gain strength where weakness has been most pronounced.
March 20. The MSA announced that six Far Eastern countries under its technical and economic aid programs are scheduled to receive $166,693,000 during the current fiscal year ending June 30.
Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, China's permanent delegate to the UN, told the disarmament commission of the epidemics on the Chinese mainland which he said Moscow and Peiping have exploited for propaganda purposes.
March 21. MSA announced the authorization of $317,000 for the purchase of industrial machinery in the economic aid program for Taiwan.
Major General William C. Chase announced that American military aid had been stepped up so much during the past year that the Chinese armed forces "are receiving their share of equipment and material in proportion to that delivered to other countries all over the world."
Recognition of the new Cuba government of General Fulgencio Batista by the Republic of China was announced. Tan Pau-tuan, Chinese minister to Cuba, notified the Cuban Foreign Ministry of his government's decision.
March 22. General Douglas MacArthur said that the policy of President Truman's administration was leading the Americans into a "Communist state" by implementing "blueprints of Marx and Lenin," and "Preparing us for war in Europe."
General Matthew Ridgway warned the Japanese that the Russians had completed the stationing of strong military forces, including many fighter planes, near Vladivostok, in the maritime province, on the southern island just north of Japan.
March 23. US Senator William Knowland said the Chinese Communists used "stalemated" truce talks to build up their air force "superior" to the US air force in Korea.
March 24. US Secretary of Navy Dan A. Kimball and his party of six ranking of officials and officers arrived at Taipei for a two-day visit in Free China. President and Madame Chiang entertained the visitors at dinner.
US Secretary of Navy Dan A. Kimball and his party of six left Taipei for Free China's naval base of Tsoying in southern Taiwan for a series of conferences with top Chinese navy men.
Russia failed again to oust the Republic of China from the UN at the outset of a special meeting of the Economic and Social Council.
General James van Fleet, commanding general of the US Eighth Army in Korea, said the reds are stronger there than ever and may be "less eager" for a cease-fire than last summer or fall.
March 25. Chinese and Japanese peace negotiators reached complete accord and worked out a treaty of peace to end the state of war between China and Japan and to establish their normal relations. Both delegations are asking their respective governments for approval.
US Secretary of Navy Dan A. Kimball said he hopes to use the Chinese navy to help blockade the Chinese mainland if the occasion arises. He indicates that the US may eventually change her policy of neutralizing Taiwan.
March 26. President Chiang called on the 35,000 Chinese nationals in Japan to "unite together and assist the government."
Premier Chen Cheng said he hoped the eventual invasion of the mainland would take place sooner than planned.
The Sino-Japanese peace negotiators agreed to list all their points of agreement and disagreement and file them in almost identical reports with their respective governments for final decision.
Authorization of US$1,008,000 for the purchase of industrial commodities in the economic aid program for Taiwan was announced by the MSA.
March 27. The Mutual Security Agency proposed to Congress to spend US$115,000,000 for fiscal 1953 to aid the Chinese National Government in Taiwan.
President Chiang urged closer ties between the two Far Eastern anti-Communist countries in his speech to the group of visiting Koreans.
US Secretary of Navy Dan A. Kimball believes the United States Navy will continue to protect Formosa regardless of what happens in Korea. A Navy spokesman, who was traveling with the Kimball party on its Far Eastern tour, said: "That is the Secretary's interpretation of the present policy in Washington."
March 28. The Sino-Japanese peace conference came to another deadlock as the Japanese government refused to agree to the tentative points worked out by the peace negotiators at Taipei.
General Hoyt Vandenberg, US Air Force Chief of Staff, warned Congress that Russia has "several thousand" more warplanes than the United States and developed atomic weapons that pose the "most ominous threat this country has ever known."
China made a government contribution of US$25,000 to assist UNICEF's work for children throughout the world.
March 29. The Government Spokesman's Office announced that the Chinese and Thai governments have agreed to extend the provisional aviation agreement between China and Thailand for another half year, ending September 30, 1952.
President Chiang, in a speech marking the ninth anniversary of Youth Day, which was set aside in memory of the 72 young martyrs who died in an anti-Manchu revolution, proclaimed the formation of the "Chinese Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps" to pool enthusiasm and efforts of the nation's youth in cultural and social reforms.
March 30. The Chinese Government, through its authorized agent CAT, opened direct Taipei-Pusan flight by sending an 11-man press party to the provisional Korean capital.
Twenty-five Chinese Air Force signal and engineering officers are leaving for the US for proficiency training.
The Burmese government ordered a halt to private recruiting of volunteers to fight Chinese Nationalist guerrillas who have slipped across the northern border from China.
A 33-member of overseas Chinese youth mission from Japan arrived at Keelung for a 25-day visit to their motherland.
President Truman announced that he would not accept another nomination as President of the U. S. A.
March 31. The Chinese Government has decided to continue peace negotiation with the Japanese on the basis of the original Chinese stand.
Japanese spokesman Hideki Mazaka said, "The Japanese delegation is having as much confidence in the conclusion of a treaty with the Chinese Government as when we first arrived here."
Eiji Wajima, Japanese Chief of the Asian Bureau, said that he was sure a bilateral treaty between Japan and the Republic of China would be signed.
President Syngman Rhee told the Chinese goodwill mission to the Republic of Korea that he vigorously supported the return of National Government to continental China. The friendly relationship between China and Korea is a factor in checking the spread of Communism in Asia, he added.