Word: defender
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...furor that followed brought renewed cries from the political extremists. On the far left Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse sponsored a resolution in the Senate which would force the President to announce that the U.S. will not defend the offshore islands. At the other political pole, Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy growled that the President should be forced to announce that the U.S. will defend the islands. Between these extremes, along with Dwight Eisenhower, stood cooler heads, like Foreign Relations Chairman George. Senator George believed that General Eisenhower had decided what courses he would choose, in varying circumstances...
Late in January the Congress, at his request, had passed-almost unanimously-a resolution giving him full authority to use U.S. forces as he saw fit for the defense of Formosa and related territories. The U.S. was committed to defend Formosa and the Pescadores; the open question was what it would do if the Communists attacked the Nationalist-held islands off the China coast, e.g., Matsu and Quemoy. Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George best summarized the resolution: "It means, in explicit terms, that the decision will be a personal one of the President...
From Chiang Kai-shek the U.S. Government has had clear notice that the Nationalists will defend Matsu and Quemoy at all cost. On-the-spot military observers give Chiang little or no hope of holding the offshore islands against Red invasion without U.S. intervention. Matsu, although farther from the mainland "than Quemoy, is considered more vulnerable because of its small size (roughly 7 sq. mi.). On Matsu Chiang has one regular division, all the troops (10,000) the island will accommodate efficiently. Dug in on Quemoy's 70 sq. mi. are about 50,000 Nationalist regulars, one-fifth...
...situation in which Canada might conceivably remain neutral, Pearson said, would be a fight by the U.S. to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He said: "I do not consider a conflict . . . for the possession of these Chinese coastal islands [to be] one requiring any Canadian intervention...
...United Nations organization to keep the peace must be established. In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...