Saving Chiang Kai-shek.

United Press International | October 27, 2000 | Copyright

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 27 (UPI)

If you have a spare statue of Winston Churchill in your garden, Tzeng Rung-Chien would love to know. And if you could rustle up Roosevelt, or steal a Stalin, expect the keys to Tahsi township in north Taiwan, where local magistrate Tzeng is reassembling the Yalta Conference of February 1945. Plus the World War II ally whom the 'Big Three' neglected to invite: Generallissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

Yalta not only ushered in the Cold War, it also marked a last hurrah for some of its participants. Within months, President Roosevelt ...

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