Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Mao Tse-tung wound up his secret talks with Khrushchev in Peking, Radio Peking formally proclaimed that Quemoy-Matsu would be assaulted as a prelude to an attack against Formosa. U.S. and Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including...
PROPAGANDA BATTLE: The Communists keyed their bombardment to a ceaseless propaganda attack, listed 40 specific charges of U.S. aggression in the Formosa Strait, whipped up a homeside hate campaign by accusing Chinese Nationalists of using poison-gas shells. By loudspeakers and leaflet shells the Communists offered the Quemoy garrison attractive surrender terms; by letters routed through Hong Kong, they offered top Nationalists big bribes if they would desert. At the same time they beat on the theme that with the U.S. elections due on Nov. 4, there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek...
...Dwight Eisenhower's Washington, high society is not what it used to be. For one thing, the President has cut down on big social doings since his heart attack and stroke (only five White House dinners this season). For another, the Washington social set, symbolized by such flamboyant party givers as Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta, seems to wilt in a Republican administration. The social glamour has now been taken over by the diplomats, who see parties principally as an excellent means of scouting international business. So crowded are the big diplomatic functions that it is sometimes easier...
...Made a vigorous attack against anti-Catholic activities in China, and in his speech used the rare and uncompromising word schism ("it seems almost to burn our lips") to brand the activities of those collaborating bishops who are consecrating new bishops at the behest of the Communist government. Said Pope John: "If these, our afflicted children, are forced to undergo trials, tribulations and cruel hardships ... let them remember and meditate that such is the price of our invincible Christian faith...
...this point, says May, the U.S. tycoon is likely to crack up with a psychosomatic heart attack. In fact, psychosomaticists contend that practically any part of the body can be a target for the psyche's anxiety and despair...