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...sure measure of the critical condition (and of the value of the President's proposal) was that the Communists, from Moscow to Peking, were reacting against Eisenhower with a fury unheard since their last hoped-for conquests (Formosa, South Viet Nam) slipped from their hands. Another measure was that the British, too long preoccupied with attacks on U.S. policy, were rallying around the point that the President's plan for the Middle East is a real contribution to world stability. "Everybody in Britain who is not lost in imperialist nostalgia or neutralist daydreams," keynoted London's middle...
...East. Already a big name in Shanghai before World War II, Huang turned his back on his homeland when the Communists took over, and, as the idol of Free Chinese movie fans from Java to Malaya, went on making up to ten pictures a year in Hong Kong and Formosa, often for the princely Asian salary of $2,000 (U.S.) a picture...
...Revealed, in a terse statement by the U.S. embassy in Taipei, that the U.S. will build a $25 million air base for the Chinese Nationalist government in central Formosa-which the U.S. Air Force will be permitted to use at will. The new field, to be "the most modern" on the island, will be capable of handling B-36 and B-52 bombers, will thus fully transform Formosa into a major strategic bombing base...
...some of their colleagues sent to Mozambique or out of the Foreign Service simply for criticizing American foreign policy, particularly a brand new, bold, forthright, massive policy. Apparently it is perfectly acceptable to write what you think if you are stationed in Australia, but not if you are in Formosa, Beirut, or Belgrade...
Gaitskell declared that not only was NATO militarily weak, but that "its members have been distracted and divided by a series if events in other parts of the world"--notably in Korea, Formosa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Cyprus--and that "even in Europe itself the central political problem of Germany remains unsolved." The latter, he felt, is particularly dangerous now because of the possibility of a revolt in East Germany...