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Then, in our January 9 issue, the editors again scored a beat when they told what had happened at this meeting, including Harry Truman's thumbs down on the J.C.S. proposal for Formosa, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson's new program for Asia, point by point...
...After Acheson had turned his last careful phrase, Harry Truman allowed little time for rebuttal. Here, at last, was a package he could take to a restive Congress. Quickly he made his decision: he would side with Dean Acheson, overrule the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There would be no military mission to Formosa...
...would embrace the Acheson plan for containment around the non-Chinese perimeter of the great, complete Communist state. Did anyone disagree? Nobody disagreed very vigorously...
Goodbye to Formosa. Later the Pentagon was still wondering how Acheson had done it. The Joint Chiefs, after all, were supposed to be the guardians of military strategy and the assessors of risk. "I predict," said one conferee drearily, "that the Communists will have Formosa within six months...
Nearly all the Republicans, even if they were inclined to sympathize with the Administration policy on Formosa, assailed the President for not consulting Congress before announcing his decision. Such a step, they said, sabotaged efforts to maintain a bi-partisan foreign policy. Secretary of State Acheson explained that Truman's haste was necessary to clarify this country's position on Formosa before the eyes of the world. Sound as the President's stand is, however, he would have been politically wise to discuss it with Congressional foreign relation leaders before making it public...