Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles Tuesday heralded a possible major shift in America's China policy. He offered to try trimming Nationalist military strength in the Formosa Strait offshore islands if the Communists quit shooting.
Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to...
Richard E. Rubinstein '59, chairman of the meeting, termed it a protest not only against the Dulles policies, but against "the veil of silence the administration has thrown over the Far Eastern picture." He introduced John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and associate director of the Center for East...
Mr. Dulles should be congratulated for the firmness of his recent warnings to Peking. Weakening by the Americans would be a disaster. If Mao gets away with seizure of Quemoy, his next target may well be Hong Kong.
If the Warsaw talks failed, the U.S. was prepared to go to the U.N., hopeful that a majority of U.N. members could be lined up behind a resolution condemning force in realizing territorial ambitions. (As Dulles was unhappily aware, the chances that he could win an explicit U.N. endorsement of...