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Everywhere I went in Formosa I asked the same question.

I was searching for an accent of self-delusion or, even, of hypocrisy.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

But I questioned, also, professional soldiers, who would not easily be hypnotized by a septuagenarian's dreamy irredentism.

Their answer was: it can be done, and we will do it.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

What evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government proposes to do just that, and that it can be done ''??