Word: formosae
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...tragic, nevertheless necessary in view of the critical Near East situation. She is once more, in a small degree, holding the fort against aggression from the north, from possible eruption in the south, and adverse criticism from sources presumably friendly. Incidentally, could you survey the situation in Formosa and the off-China islands with the same penetrative binoculars, substituting a holding force other than Chiang...
...Geneva last week Chinese Reds who are negotiating with the U.S. broke five months of mutually agreed silence to complain that U.S. insistence on a Communist renunciation of force over Formosa is stymying any hope of settlement. From Hong Kong, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne cabled his evaluation...
...away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face-on the question of enlarging the Korean war, on the question of getting into the Indo-China war, on the question of Formosa. We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action. It took a lot more courage for the President than for me. His was the ultimate decision. I did not have to make the decision myself, only to recommend it. The President never flinched...
...Formosa Strait, 1954-55. Dulles felt that the Communists were deterred from attacking the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu by the resolution, framed by himself and passed by the Congress, giving the President a free hand to use U.S. forces against the Communists if they attacked Formosa and related territories. Shepley added: "Dulles has never doubted, incidentally, that Eisenhower would have regarded an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus as an attack on Formosa...
Dulles summed up the historical argument: "Nobody is able to prove mathematically that it was the policy of deterrence which brought the Korean war to an end and which kept the Chinese from sending their Red armies into Indo-China, or that it has finally stopped them in Formosa. I think it is a pretty fair inference that...