July 16. The 11-member Thai agricultural mission, headed by General Surajit Charusreni, minister of agriculture, wound up its nine-day visit to free China and left for Hongkong.
17. Some 1,000 representatives from all walks of life, held a freedom rally in Taipei to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.-initiated "Captive Nations Week."
18. A four-member Chinese goodwill mission headed by Chow Shu-kai, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, left Taipei for Hawaii for a ten-day visit.
19. Choi Yong Duk, new Korean ambassador, arrived in Taipei to assume his new post.
20. Dr. Sampson C. Shen, former director of the Government Information Office, left Taipei for Brazzaville to assume his new position as Chinese ambassador to the Republic of the Congo.
21. Dr. Wei Yu-sen, acting spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, declared that the Chinese Government will continue to give full support to Mauritania's application for U.N. membership.
General James F. Collins, commander of United States Army Forces in the Pacific, paid a high tribute to the Chinese armed forces for their superb training after a three-day visit to Taiwan.
Chinese Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan and Charge d'Affaires Joseph A. Yager of the American Embassy signed in Taipei a Sino-American Agricultural Commodities Agreement.
23. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng would arrive in Washington on July 31 for an official visit to the United States at the invitation of President John F. Kennedy.
24. Dr. Jose Luis de Cossio, new charge d'affaires of the Peruvian Embassy, arrived in Taipei to assume his office.
25. The Legislative Yuan ratified a 10-year cultural convention between the Republic of China and the Republic of Nicaragua.
Dr. Willington Koo, veteran Chinese diplomat who is now judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, returned to Taipei for a two-week visit.
28. Taiwan's agricultural output scored a 75 per cent increase last year over that of 1950, registering an annual increase rate of 6 per cent, the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction revealed.
The Legislative Yuan ratified a cultural pact signed last May in Montevideo between the Republic of China and the Republic of Uraguay.
29. Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng left Taipei for the United States for an official visit at the invitation of President John F. Kennedy. He was accompanied by Mme. Chen and other government officials.
31. President Chiang Kai-shek lauded the firm stand on Berlin taken by U.S. President John F. Kennedy as expressed in the latter's radio-television address on July 25.
August 1. Former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi arrived in Taipei for a six-day visit.
Ku Cheng-kang, president of the China Chapter of the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, called for the establishment of a collective security organization in the Pacific area to resist the new threat posed by the military alliance of Soviet Russia, the Peiping regime and North Korea.
Korean Ambassador Choi Yong Duk presented his credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek.
2. In a joint communique issued in Washington, President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Chen Cheng reaffirmed the close alliance between the United States and the Republic of China and the determination of the two countries to oppose the admission of the Peiping regime to the United Nations.
4. Two ammunition plants, built with U.S. military aid, were officially turned over to the Chinese Combined Service Forces. The arsenals are reportedly the best of their kind in the Far East.
6. Former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said upon winding up his six-day unofficial visit to free China that Japan will not recognize the Peiping regime so long as the Liberal Democratic Party is in power.
The Secretariat of the Yangmingshan Forum announced that some 110 local and overseas Chinese scholars, scientists and journalists will be invited to attend the second round of the Yangmingshan Forum dedicated to a discussion of the nation's educational and cultural policies and problems.
The Ministry of National Defense announced that Chinese Communist artillery pieces fired 46 rounds on Kinmen on August 5.
7. A four-member goodwill mission from Kenya headed by Vice Minister of Education Arap Moi arrived in Taipei for a ten-day visit.
8. A three-member preliminary assistance mission of the International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA) arrived in Taipei for a week-long inspection tour.
10. U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumright returned to Taipei after a five-week home consultation trip with confidence that the Sino-American relations "will become ever closer in the critical days ahead."
11. Gaston Kingué-Jong, director of Cameroon News Agency left Taipei for Tokyo after touring various mass media and industrial installations on Taiwan.
12. The Chinese Government hailed as a victory for the free world the U.S. decision to give up her intention of recognizing Outer Mongolia.
13. Vice President and Premier Chen Cheng declared upon his return from a 12-day visit to the United States that China and the United States are in general agreement on problems of mutual concern.
14. A mechanized training center for farmers, a project of Sino-West German economic cooperation, was inaugurated at Pingtung in southern Taiwan. The center had received over NT$10,000,000 worth of powered farming machinery and repair equipment from the Government of West Germany.
Communist artillery fired 132 rounds against Kinmen on August 12, the Ministry of National Defense announced.
15. J. C. Webb, director of the Division of Technical Supplies of International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA) and member of the IAEA assistance mission, said upon winding up a week-long visit to this island that the Republic of China made outstanding progress in the past two years in the use of atomic energy, particularly the test of using atomic energy to change rice variety.
Y. S. Tsiang, secretary general of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship for 1962, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. announced.