The Russians will launch a Pacific war in 1956, said Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek this week, in an interview with the United Press. All that they are waiting for, he added, is the completion of a giant network of railroads, transecting China vertically and horizontally and linking the Asian land mass with Russia.
Two days before Chiang made his statement, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson returned to Washington from a flying visit with him. Reports had circulated that Robertson's mission was made to halt Nationalist air attacks on the Red...