June 16. President Chiang officiated at the celebration of the 's 30th anniversary which featured a big military parade by the cadets of the Academy.
In a statement issued upon the announced failure of the conference, Foreign Minister George Yeh warned the free world that the fruitless conference should be discontinued right away and the proper solution of the Korean and Indo-China problems could only be found through the UN.
Free 's chief delegate to the Asian People's Anti-Communist Conference Ku Cheng-kang proposed a four-point program to battle against the expansion of Communism. He called upon all free nations to outlaw the Communist Party and strictly prohibit Communist activities, and hasten to set up an organization for collective security of the Asian and Pacific nations.
's chief delegate to the UN Dr. T. F. Tsiang told the UN Security Council that the Communists had set up in readiness a so-called "free government of " within continental .
June 17. The Asian People's Anti-Communist Conference resolved to set up an Asian People's Anti-Communist League in eight countries and territories to fight, by action and publicity, Communist or any other aggression. The organization committee of the conference also recommended as the site for the second meeting of the Southeast Asia Anti-Communist conference.
Free formally granted political asylum to the captain and 11 Polish crew members of the captured tanker "Praca."
Officiating at the combined commencement exercises of the cadets of all naval schools in Free China. President Chiang called upon the Navymen to shoulder the responsibility of recovering the: lost mainland.
June 18. The Asian People's Anti-Communist Conference wound up its business sessions and solemnly declared its firm determination to fight Communism in all possible ways.
The Republic of China won full voting rights as a member of the International Labor Organization in the face of stiff opposition from the Communist bloc.
June 19. US Congressman Walter Judd declared that the free world could not achieve real security in Asia until the forces of freedom succeed in breaking the Communist hold on the Chinese mainland and that the breakup of the puppet Communist regime would immediately remove the danger to the rest of East and .
Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay signed into law the retail trade nationalization bill despite repeated protests from foreign nations whose nationals in the would be adversely affected by this measure.
The Chinese Government voiced its strong protest against the enactment of the retail trade nationalization law in the and condemned the action as marring the amicable relations between the two countries.
June 20. Raymond Moyer, Director of Far Eastern Operations of the US Foreign Operations Administration, had informed the U. S. Congress that the economic aid program for the Chinese National Government in for fiscal 1955 would aim at assisting the expansion of industry to balance an essentially agricultural economy.
June 21. In a Presidential mandate President Chiang appointed General Kwei Yung-ching as Chief of General Staff to succeed General Chou Chih-jou whose two-year tenure of office had expired.
Premier O. K. Yui turned down the resignation of Foreign Minister George Yeh who had tendered his resignation on the Rround that he had failed in his efforts to forestall the enactment of the Philippine retail trade nationalization bill.
June 22. The Chinhae Conference in had achieved its major purposes by passing two resolutions, namely the adoption of anti-Communist constitution of free Asian peoples and the setting up of an Asian peoples' anti-Communist machinery.
US Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm ordered Mow Pang-tsu to turn the sum of US$6,368,503 over to the Chinese Government within 20 days.
June 24. President Chiang appointed General Huang Chieh, Commander of the Taipei Garrison Headquarters. as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to succeed Gen. Sun Li-jen who was named Presidential Chief of Staff, and Admiral Liang Hsu-chao, Commander of the Amphibious Forces, as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and Lieut.-Gen. Chang Yi-ting as Director of the National Defense Ministry's Political Department to succeed Lieut.-Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Gen. Wang Shu-ming was given a new term of another two years.
June 25. The Chinese Government formally announced the interception of a Russian tanker caught carrying strategic fuel oil to the Communist in waters near this island.
June 27. President Eisenhower's special envoy to the Far East General James A. Van Fleet arrived in and immediately plunged into conferences with President Chiang.
June 28. In a report made on the present world situation at the weekly Dr. Sun Yat-sen's memorial meeting of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, Political Vice - Minister for Foreign Affairs Shen Chang-huan warned the free world that the democracies should hold no more conferences with the Communists outside of the UN which would give aid to enemy propaganda and nothing helpful to world peace.
June 29. President Eisenhower's special envoy General James A. Van Fleet and his party inspected army installations at an undisclosed military base in central .
June 30. General Van Fleet made a three-hour whirlwind inspection of the Kinmen island outpost off the Communist-held mainland.
General Kwei Yung-ching, former Presidential Chief of Staff, was formally inducted into office as Chief of General Staff to succeed General Chou Chih-jou.
July 1. In a Presidential mandate President Chiang announced further military a ppointments: Gen.Chou Chih-jou as Secretary General of the National Defense Council; Gen. Huang Chen-chiu as Deputy Minister of Nation al Defense; Generals Peng Meng-chi and Hsu Pei-ken as Deputy Chiefs of Staff; Mr. Kiang Pao as Administrative Vice-Minister of the Ministry of National Defense; Lt.-Gen. J. L. Huang as acting Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Service Forces; Lt.-Gen. Lo Chi, Vice-Admiral John G. Ma and Maj.-Gen. Lai Ming-tang as Assistant Chiefs of Staff.
July 2. A ceremony marking the first turnover of American naval patrol craft to the Chinese Navy under the mutual defense assistance pro gram was held at the naval shipyard.
Spanish Ambassador Fermin Sanz Orrio presented his credentials to President Chiang as 's second Ambassador to the Republic of China since the resumption of Sino-Spanish diplomatic relations.
July 3. President Chiang administered oaths to 25 top administrative and military leaders who had been appointed to important posts in the recent government reshuffles.
July 4. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon said that the puppet Chinese Communist regime should not be admitted to the UN because it was responsible for the death of thousands of UN troops in and could not now pose as a nation dedicated to the cause of peace.
Before leaving for Hongkong on his way back to the General Van Fleet said that a Sino American, mutual defense pact was necessary.
July 5. Foreign Minister George Yeh served a stern warning against the admission of the pup pet Peiping regime into the UN which, he said, should it come to pass, would destroy the very principles of the world organization.
July 6. The Legislative Yuan approved a 23-article "Draft Statute for Investment by Foreign Nationals."
July 7. A ceremony presided by General Huang Chieh, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, was held at the Army Headquarters to celebrate the seventh Army Day.
July 9. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Republic of China had ex tended diplomatic recognition to the new anti- Communist government of .
July 10. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee formally approved a proposal asking President Eisenhower to confer with Congress if the Chinese Reds were admitted to the UN, and made recommendations on changes in foreign policy.
July 11. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, 's chief gate to the UN, vowed to fight to the end against 's admission to the UN expressed his belief that "the cause of Chinese freedom has a chance of success."
July 12. The Legislative Yuan held an important meeting to thrash out measures for the evacuation of the overseas Chinese numbering some northern Indo-China in view of the war situation there.
President Chiang received Lieut. Liang Tien-chia, captain of Warship No. 106, who led crewmen in winning a sea victory over a Communist flotilla off the coast.
July 13. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Far Eastern Affairs Drumright said that the had always supported a free independent , and the present communist hold on the Chinese mainland is, therefore great threat to American security.
July 14. The Ministry of Education announced new regulations which permit middle school graduates to pursue advanced studies abroad.
Contributors to this Issue:
Durham S. F. Chen is a member of our editorial board.
Hsueh Yu-chi is Director of the Treaty Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
T. S. Mao is Professor of Chinese Literature, .
Shen Chang-huan is Political Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, concurrently, Director of the Fourth Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee.
C. K. Yen is Governor of the .
Nathan S. Y. Yuan, Senior Expert of the Ministry of Finance, is a frequent contributor to this Review.
O. K. Yui is President of the Executive Yuan, National Government of the Republic of China.