Word: formosae
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...reputation for being both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Tsao had known many prominent Chinese on both sides before the Nationalists were driven from the mainland, had written a book about the generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Believing that there was no future for an independent Formosa, and that the best thing for all Chinese was a negotiated settlement with the Communists, he got an encouraging go-ahead from Peking, then wrote to Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo's son, in Taipei. "In this time of emergency, I have something important to tell you," he wrote...
...have been soft-pedaling for the past eight months. His meaning was clear, though he phrased his words in the classic upside-down language of Communism: "The Chinese people unanimously support the peace policy of their government. They are ready to stand together to fight for the return of Formosa to the motherland...
Died. Roger Steffan, 62, longtime (1929-53) vice president of the National City Bank of New York, aide to Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams as White House business manager in 1953, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission to Nationalist China on Formosa in 1954; of a heart attack; at his ranch in Vista, Calif...
...accommodate Peiping's flagpole by this time next year. When Mao Tsc Tung's regime does enter the UN, Secretary of State Dulles may very well have to find a hold of his own to crawl into. Senator Knowland, for his part, has already grabbed a made-in-Formosa shovel and begun burrowing in the direction of the White House...
...what wars it has started. It is, therefore, only a matter of time before Red China makes the grade. When it does, our delegation will be lucky to get Japan admitted also. The U.S. must try for some quid pro quo: maintaining the Chinese Nationalists as the government of Formosa or insuring that Outer Mongolia remains outer. Mr. Dulles' main consolation, as he faces the task of breaking the news to the American people, is that next year's membership struggle on the East River will come only a month after a similar decision about a residence on the Potomac...