Memory Box of Archives

 

The Department of Public Debt, Ministry of Finance, had been merged into the National Treasury Administration in 1981, handing several wooden boxes loaded with archives over to the Administration at the same time.

It seems not easy to identify if these boxes reached Taiwan through the sea way during the war time. Nevertheless, if we look into a torn and worn report of the Central Daily News (No. 8437) of “Tsiang, Ting Fu exchanged opinions with Dean Gooderham Acheson about the case of condemning the Soviet Union” stuck on one of the boxes, we may at least conclude that this box bears witness to more than a half century of memory, providing a solid evidence of the history.

 

Clue No. 1

Mr. Tsiang, Ting Fu (December 1895 ~ October 1965) was a professor of the National Tsing Hua University, the ambassador of the Republic of China to the Soviet Union (1936 ~ 1938), the permanent representative to the United Nations, and the ambassador to the United States of America (1961~1965).

Clue No. 2

The case of “Condemning the Soviet Union” in which the Republic of China complained to the United Nations against the Soviet Union, submitted by the chief representative of the Republic of China, Mr. Tsiang, Ting Fu, to the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 1949, for threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of China and to the peace of Far East, resulting from the Soviet violations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and of the Charter of the United Nations. 

The UN General Assembly then adopted the Resolution 505 to condemn the Soviet Union in February 1952.

Clue No.3

The Central Daily News has been launched in circulation in Shanghai since February 1928, temporarily suspended due to the break out of the Sino-Japanese War (July 1937), resumed the publication in Chongqing in September 1938. The publication headquarter was relocated to Taiwan with the government of the Republic of China. In 2006 the paper publication of the news (total 28,356 publications) has been replaced by the online form.

 

(Note: The above clues come from the Wiki Online.)