Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The query, addressed to Secretary of State Dulles, followed an Adams House forum three weeks ago in which three Faculty members strongly criticized government policy, and the subsequent circulation of a petition protesting U.S. involvement in the defense of Quemoy and Matsu.
At week's end Dulles got the word that Red China was extending its Quemoy cease-fire for another fortnight. "This is not a betrayal," Red China's local commanders felt it necessary to assure their troops in a special proclamation. "This is a racial righteousness. We must...
In this suspense Dulles trod warily between firmness and non-provocation as he sought to keep the cease-fire alive. Specifically last week the U.S.: <¶Suspended U.S. Navy escorting of Chinese Nationalist convoys to Quemoy-a Red China cease-fire condition-figuring that the Chinese Nationalists had all but...
"We Chinese." Yet more was obviously involved than a Red retreat. Peking was eager to exploit a wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in...
To the U.S., the Red Chinese presented another face. If Washington was prepared to remove "the thorn in the side of peace" so long as force was not employed, what was Washington ready to offer now that force was no longer being used against Quemoy? The Reds challenged Secretary of...