Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Felix Stump. They concluded that the Communists might soon be able to carry out their threat of an attack on Formosa. In the eyes of the U.S. strategists, this gave a new shape to the Formosa crisis: Quemoy and the Matsus became incidental; Formosa itself and the U.S. Seventh Fleet were in the eye of danger...
Stomping into the conference room in his black coat and jodhpurs, he announced his own plan: withdrawal of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, abandonment of Quemoy and Matsu, a trusteeship for Formosa either under the U.N. or the Colombo powers...
...defense of Quemoy and Matsu "will inevitably lead to a big war" [April 4]. Is it necessarily a sequitur that the loss of the offshore islands will, as TIME believes, mean the loss of Formosa and all of Asia? I have much more faith than that in our Seventh Fleet...
...Died. Vice Admiral C. A. F. ("Alphabet") Sprague, 59, veteran naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...Made plans to return to West Point this June for the first time since he became President. It will be the 40th reunion of his class (1915). Classmates include General James A. Van Fleet. General of the Army Omar N. Bradley and Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer...