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...complicating factor for the State Department was Eisenhower's post-Korea policy, expressed during the 1955 Formosa crisis, of getting prior congressional approval for the use of U.S. forces. Once again Ike was adamant: it was essential to get congressional approval in advance for the use, if necessary, of the U.S. deterrent power in the Middle East. So after Ike and Dulles won a National Security Council O.K. for the doctrine, Ike went before a joint session of Congress to 1) request standing authority to use U.S. armed forces to help protect any Middle Eastern nation requesting help against...
...Diplomacy. While the U.S. was generally grasping the logic of the New Look, Admiral Radford was often out in front urging a firm military-diplomatic line against Communism. In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait. His points: Why guarantee the Chinese Reds against attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed...
...FIRST FORMOSA SHIPYARD for tankers over 30,000 tons will be built by U.S. and Chinese investors. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. has taken ten-year lease on Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Keelung, will add $2,000,000 to Chinese investors' $10 million for expansion, says it already has two contracts for 32,000-tonners. Formosan shipworkers will be sent to U.S. for training...
...Tiger. In Taipei, Formosa, after Bus Driver Lien Maying bit a hole in a passenger's hand when he tried to board her bus with an armload of vegetables, the judge ordered her to pay $6 damages, observed: "It was not ladylike...
...making the first circuit of his new beat last week. Before he moved to Bonn in 1954, he had covered an area of the Middle East encompassing roughly 5,500,000 square miles (area of the U.S.: 3,022,387 square miles). Now his domain is Southeast Asia - Formosa, the Philippines. Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Indo-China and Burma. And he may range as far as Australia...