Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop, a shadow fell over his substantial achievement. By definition no plan for anti-Communism can ever be put in motion unless Communist aggression is halted where it is on the military march. Dulles had good reasons for refusing to state categorically whether the U.S. would or would not defend the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, but his refusal plunged the Nationalists into gloom and considerably dimmed the bright new hopes he had kindled in the rest of Asia...
...made several passes at the field before the pilot was able to find a way down to the runway through the mist. Foreign Minister George Yeh met Dulles at planeside, escorted him to Taipei's City Hall for formal signing of the treaty that binds the U.S. to defend Formosa and the Pescadores from attack. Then Dulles was driven out to Grass Mountain, 20 minutes from Taipei, for luncheon with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang...
...lunch lasted two hours. Chiang, pointing out the difficulty of maintaining morale on Formosa in the face of retreat from the islands, asked for a specific commitment on Quemoy and the Matsus. Dulles refused; the treaty, he said, does not bind the U.S. to defend the islands. Are there any conditions under which the U.S. would defend them? asked Chiang. Possibly, replied Dulles. If President Eisenhower were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles...
...President allows himself the chance to assess the circumstances of attack before opening fire on Communist China. Dulles has a second reason for ambiguity: in Britain, where the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is unpopular, the Churchill government has gone a long way to endorse the U.S. stand on defending Formosa, runs the risk of weakening even this stand if it is forced to endorse a definite U.S. commitment to defend Quemoy and Matsu. Thirdly, ambiguity may confuse the enemy; he cannot be certain precisely what the U.S. will do if he attacks...
...Heard Pepe Figueres, long a critic of the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.'s operations in Costa Rica, passionately defend the firm from a pending U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit. Figueres argued that United Fruit's "bigness . . . has led to the stability of our banana production...