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Touchy Issue. Israel, Algeria, Formosa, Indo-China, Indonesia, Kashmir, Cyprus and the whole NATO area are serious tension points, said Stevenson. "Today in the great arc from North Africa through Southeast Asia, the Russian challenge is developing rapidly and with great flexibility and force. Everywhere, people seeking a short cut to raise their own standards of life are told that the Soviet Union alone has mastered the secret of converting a peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that...
Love of Planning. The Russians first defected from Communism when their ship, the oil tanker Tuapse, was seized by the Chinese Nationalists in the Formosa Strait about 20 months ago. No fewer than 20 of the Tuapse's, 49-man crew took political asylum in Formosa, and nine moved on last fall to New York...
...United States should support the admission of Communist China to the United Nations, and restore Formosa and other off-shore islands to mainland control, according to Ralph Barton Perry '96, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, emeritus...
...colored world sectors on the warpath against white colonialism. I am against World War III being fought by the U.S., as I was against our fighting World War II. Does this justify calling me a Communist or a supporter of the Communist cause against dear old Chiang on Formosa, or of the native cause of the Moslem terrorists in North Africa against our British and French allies, without whom we are not supposed to be able to stand alone, or of the Greek cause of the Christian terrorists on Cyprus against the British or of the Arab cause...
Last week, after Hoover's uncharacteristically strong statement was made public, he was summoned before the committee again, had to admit that the Under Secretary of State had not known what he was talking about. Hoover's State Department knows of no direct trade between Formosa and Red China; Hoover's State Department knows only that some $250,000 worth of Nationalist Chinese exports to British Hong Kong (Chinese medicines, camphor, citronella, etc.) were transshipped during 1955 to the Communists. When U.S. Senators and Chinese Nationalist diplomats expressed consternation, Herbert Hoover politely withdrew. His statement, he said...