Word: formosae
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...twin-engined Ilyushin transport plane, the gift of Moscow's traveling leaders to Burma. Less in evidence but more significant were the other artifacts of achievement left behind: ¶ joint statement of principles flatly aligning Burmese Premier U Nu with Communists on such issues as the surrender of Formosa to the Red Chinese, admission of Peking to the U.N., unconditional prohibition of nuclear weapons...
...main task facing the U. S. is to makes the continuing American Revolution of political democracy and a broad division of wealth meaningful to the rest of the world. This entails not mere talk--but showing willingness to come to an understanding with Red China, helping to make Formosa a democratic outpost, stepping up an information program in Africa, opposing colonialism clearly and publicly, and working for an eventual abolition of war itself...
...denim uniforms filed into a warehouse on a barren hill west of the Formosan city of Taichung. They were there to begin their college education. Standing before piles of shipping crates, President Beauson Tseng, 61, welcomed them to a unique educational enterprise: Tunghai University, the first Christian university in Formosa's history...
Permanent Element. The academic ideal which came to life in last week's simple ceremony dates back to the end of the Japanese occupation of Formosa. At that time Protestant leaders in Formosa began to press for a Christian college similar to the 13 Protestant colleges on the Chinese mainland, which were partially supported by church groups in the U.S. and England. By 1951 the mainland colleges had been sealed off by the Communists, and Formosan educational leaders, hoping to use some of the funds thus diverted, appealed to the body through which major Protestant support had been channeled...
...arms race in the Mideast and stirring up anti-Western sentiment in North Africa and Cyprus, while Western nations like Great Britain, smitten by Geneva optimism, have reduced the size of their own armed forces. These developments have engendered for the United States new anxiety reminiscent of the Formosa Strait crisis last spring...