Suzanne Labin, famed French woman writer, arrived in Taiwan for a two-week visit at the invitation of the China Chapter of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League.
17 American Senator John J. Sparkman (Democrat-Alabama) arrived in Taiwan for a two-day stay on his third visit to Free China since 1951.
Lt. Gen. Yu Jae-Hung, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Republic of Korea, arrived in Taipei for a week's visit at the invitation of General Wang Shu-ming, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China.
19 The Steering Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a U. S. resolution rejecting the Indian request to include on the Assembly agenda the case of Chinese representation, and also declaring that the Assembly was "not to consider" at the 12th session any proposals to seat the puppet Peiping regime.
20 Hailing the Committee's decision, the New York Times stressed that the puppet Peiping regime cannot represent the Chinese people. It said:
"A specious plea has been made that the United Nations cannot fulfill its proper functions so long as some half a billion Chinese "people" are not repre
sented within its walls. This presupposes that the Peiping regime actually "represents" the Chinese people. This cannot be proved since the Peiping regime has never submitted itself to a test of free election."
Robert Mathew and John Hill, members of the British Parliament, left Taiwan after a two-week observation trip. They spoke highly of Taiwan's agricultural development and said they were especially impressed by the land reform program and the living standard on Taiwan which they termed as "certainly higher" than that on the Communist-held Chinese mainland.
24 President Chiang Kai-shek's book "Soviet Russia in China" was airdropped over various Chinese mainland provinces by CAF planes.
The United Nations General Assembly decided to shelve for another year the question of seating the puppet Peiping regime in the United Nations by a vote of 48 to 27 with 6 abstentions. Addressing the Assembly before the vote, Dr. T. F. Tsiang said in part:
The Communist regime on the mainland of my country is a passing regime. It cannot endure and will not endure… Communism in my country has reached the beginning of its end. The recent events in Hungary have strengthened the determination of the Chinese people to revolt. At such a stage of development the United Nations should not allow itself to be exploited for the purpose of strengthening the tottering tyranny on the mainland of my country.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a leading American Protestant clergyman returning to the United States after a three-month visit in Taiwan, urged the American government to give "even stronger" support to President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek because, he said, "they are the most consistent and effective opponents of Communism on earth." Free China, he added, is rapidly assuming the characteristics of, a gem of a democracy. Describing his impressions of Taiwan, Peale said: "Instead of discouragement I found everyone seemingly happy from top leaders to the average man in the street. I saw no beggars on streets or roadways. Everyone seems to be well-fed and all are busy. Shops are filled with excellent merchandise. The economy is a rising one." Peale concluded that Taiwan impressed him with amazing spiritual vitality and "my visit convinced me that the person who writes Taiwan off is incredibly unrealistic. It is a symbol of hope."
25 Madame Labin said after a 10-day visit in Taiwan that she found living conditions here decidedly better than those in other Asian countries which she had visited. "I have specially admired the cleverness and humanity of your land reform," she added. "It bears the most vivid contrast to the dullness and ruthlessness of the farm collectivization in Red China."
The Chinese Communist New China News Agency reported that according to figures released by the Communist public security ministry, from June 1955 to December 1956, over 81,000 persons were found engaging in anti-Communist activities in Communist government agencies, schools, government operated enterprises as well as in Red military establishments while 1,300,000 persons were classified as political unreliable.
Louis Jacquinot, member of the French National Assembly, accompanied by Madame Jacquinot, arrived in Taiwan for a two-day visit in the course of his Southeast Asian tour.
26 The Council of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League opened its first three-day meeting in Taipei with a pledge to "unify all the free nations of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas against the evil forces of Communism." The meeting was presided over by Ku Cheng-kang, chairman of the China Chapter of the APACL.
In a policy speech before the General Assembly, Dr. Hu Shih paid tribute to the Hungarian freedom fighters and said the Hungarian event has given rise to two important anti-Communist movements on the Chinese mainland. One of these, he said, has been the nation-wide outbreak of anti Communist movements among students in universities, colleges and middle schools, and the other, the outspoken criticism and attack on the Communist party by intellectuals. Like the Hungarian regime last October, Hu said, the Chinese Communist regime in 1957 also found itself deserted by the youth of the nation and opposed by the intelligentsia.
28 The Council of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League concluded its three-day conference in Taipei by adopting a resolution agreeing to co-sponsor a world anti-Communist conference in 1958 and a nine-point program of action to further its anti-Communist movement.
General Otto P. Weyland, U. S. Tactical Air Commander, flew in for a three-day visit.
29 The U. S. Committee of One Million published in the New York Times under the title "The Case Against Red China" excerpts from a statement by Walter S. Robertson, US Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. After elaborating on why Communist China was ineligible for U. N. membership, Robertson said the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan stands as a living refutation of the Chinese Communists' claim that their regime is the government entitled to represent China.
Antoine Pinay, former French Premier who came to Taiwan at the invitation of Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh, left the island after a one-week visit. In an interview with the Broadcasting Corporation of China prior to his departure, Pinay said that the Communists, bent on conquest of human desires for freedom, have shut millions of unfortunate victims behind the Iron Curtain. "But you have shown another way" in another direction inspired by "your culture which is still new and up-to-date, because it is derived from pure humanitarianism," he added. The civilization which the Chinese people inherited has withstood the test of time and is today perhaps the best weapon to combat Communism, Pinay pointed out.
The Republic of China was reelected by the U. N. General Assembly to a new three-year term on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
At a third election held on the same day, Dr. Wellington V. K. Koo, Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, was reelected to the Court for a full 9-year term beginning February 6, 1957.
Oct 2 General Chang Chun, Secretary General of the Office of the President, visiting Japan as special envoy of President Chiang Kai-shek, issued a joint communique with Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi emphasizing the further cementing of the friendly relations between the two countries.
5 Ghods Nakhai, Iranian Ambassador to China, presented his credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek.
8 Five hundred chia (1198.1 acres) of farmland valued at NT$15,000,000 was allotted to 1,280 retired servicemen, each receiving a plot of land capable of producing about 2,000 catties of rice a year, in addition to the necessary farm implements and warehouses. The allotment of land to the retired servicemen was formalized through presentation of land deeds to the new farmers by General Chou Chih-jou, Governor of Taiwan.
The second conference of the Commission for the Promotion of Sino-Japanese Cooperation held in Taipei since October 6 was successfully concluded after adopting a aeries of concrete plans to further Sino Japanese cooperation in the political, economic and cultural fields.
10 President Chiang Kai-shek in hill message to the nation on the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China set down a six-point program restoring basic freedoms to the people which he pledged to carry out after the Government's return to the mainland. He also gave guarantees to Communist soldiers and political organizations of Free China's lenient policy if they recanted and joined the Government in anti-Communist, activities.
In Taiwan, the Double Tenth program started with the opening in Taipei of the 10-day Eighth National Congress of the Kuomintang. It was followed by a grand military review with one hundred jet planes flying over the reviewing stand.
11-15 Free China's Army, Navy, Air Force and Combined Service Forces headquarters exhibited their respective equipment as a unique feature of this year's Double Tenth celebrations. Hundreds of thousands of spectators jammed the Sungshan airport every day to watch jet acrobatic performances and the Keelung port to see the naval ships. Other display centers also drew big crowds.