Letter from Formosa

A Going Concern

Shortly after my arrival an American businessman, whom I met at the Friends of China Club, told me that he had flown over to find out what’s going on here, after his New York office had surprisingly received substantial orders for machinery from Formosa. “I had thought,” he said, “that Formosa was just a semi-tropical island consisting of rice paddies and mountain scenery, harboring the Chinese National Government and its army supported by American subsidies.” Instead he had discovered that the seat of the Chinese government-in-exile is a going concern with fields, farms and factories producing most of the necessaries of modern living.

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A Going Concern

Shortly after my arrival an American businessman, whom I met at the Friends of China Club, told me that he had flown over to find out what’s going on here, after his New York office had surprisingly received substantial orders for machinery from Formosa. “I had thought,” he said, “that Formosa was just a semi-tropical island consisting of rice paddies and mountain scenery, harboring the Chinese National Government and its army supported by American subsidies.” Instead he had discovered that the seat of the Chinese government-in-exile is a going concern with fields, farms and factories producing most of the necessaries of modern living.