^* On July 20, 1965, I reported from Hong Kong that Li Tsung-Jen, the Nationalist vice president and later acting president, had returned to the China mainland after sixteen years of exile in the United States traveling surreptitiously via Switzerland aboard a special plane to Peking. He had broken with the Chiang Kai-shek government on Taiwan, which earlier had formally impeached him as vice president and declared he would form a “third force.” Welcomed at the Peking airport by Premier Zhou Enlai, Li pledged support for the Communist cause in the struggle with the United States to make up for his “guilty past.” He was treated deferentially by Communist officials until his death in 1969 at the age of seventy-eight. Shortly before his death, according to Xinhua, he wrote a letter to the Peking government in which he said that the only way out for the Nationalist officials on Taiwan would be for them “to return as I did to the motherland to contribute their share to the liberation of Taiwan.”