Short honeymoon, extended torment In the 1950s the free world was faced off against the communist block. America, Canada and Southeast Asian Nations all had bouts of the red scare. Overseas Chinese, whose fatherland was "red China," were viewed with suspicion.
歸僑回國，另一個現實因素，則是五○年代初期，自由世界與共產國家正展開尖銳對立，因此東南亞及美加等國，都有強烈的「恐共」傾向，對祖籍屬「紅色中國」的華僑，更存有一份疑慮。