Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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An hour and 45 minutes later, a few words edited to his liking, the President told Dulles to go ahead and release the historic 800-word document. Its clearly phrased message: the U.S. would fight if the Chinese Communists should move in on Quemoy, Little Quemoy or the Matsus.
No Paper Tiger. Dulles went upstairs to a room crowded with 42 correspondents, adjusted his steel-rimmed glasses, and read the Newport Warning straight through. Then he made the message even plainer in a "background briefing" under the standard ground rule that he would be quoted only as an unnamed...
By written or spoken word, Dulles laid down these points:
"If I were on the Chinese Communist side," summed up "Anonymous Spokesman" Dulles, "I would think very hard before I went ahead on the face of this statement." He also offered the diplomatic carrot: if the Reds would renounce force, the U.S. was willing to continue efforts to negotiate a...
Warning provoked surprisingly little home-front criticism. And the message got through to Peking. Within two days, while the Reds eased off on their artillery barrages against Quemoy, Premier Chou En-lai picked up the Dulles proposal to negotiate, called for new diplomatic talks at the ambassadorial level.