Word: formosae
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...Affairs Minister Lester Pearson comes to Washington for talks with Dulles. For one thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
...years the propagandists of Peking and Formosa have fought a subsurface battle for the loyalties of Thailand's 3,000,000-odd Chinese. Even though the Communist Party is outlawed by the Thais, the victories mostly seemed to go to the Communists. Afraid of being caught on the wrong side, impressed by Red China's military powers, and on occasion intimidated by ominous warnings from the underground, Chinese oldsters in Thailand have been persuaded to be either cautiously closemouthed or openly sympathetic to the Reds. The biggest victories of all have been won on the impressionable battleground...
...groups to discuss art, literature, music and the world of ideas. Many a shrewd Communist has been able to plant his ideas in fertile soil. With the battle all but lost in this vital salient, Thailand's Chinese anti-Communists last month sent a call for help to Formosa. Their answer came in the form of a fat, jovial, 43-year-old music teacher named Chu Yung-chen...
...Onetime secretary of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. in China, who now lives on Formosa, is helping to relocate refugee intellectuals from the China mainland...
...Congress, Eisenhower urged George to pass up the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee and to become, instead, Foreign Relations Chairman. George agreed, became the strong voice of foreign-policy bipartisanship on Capitol Hill (TIME. April 25, 1955). When Ike asked for a free hand in dealing with the Formosa area crisis, George's support produced an overwhelming bipartisan vote of confidence. His early, public espousal of a Big Four meeting was a key factor in the President's decision to attend the summit conference at Geneva last summer...