Word: formosae
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...devoutly seek. But let us never forget that the peace we now have, and the peace which we would preserve, is not peace at any price. It is peace with freedom, purchased by those who were willing to fight and die. Last winter, when aggression threatened in the Formosa area, the Congress unitedly authorized the President to use the armed forces of the United States for the defense of our vital interests and of our ally in that area. I believe that this action contributed indispensably to the preservation of peace. Two years ago I said: 'If events...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
Rickett is obsessed with the evils that he attributes to Chiang Kaishek. "When I criticize the U.S., what I am really criticizing is its position on Formosa." He believes that the U.S. should abandon Formosa and drop its embargo on strategic trade with Red China. He remarked with quiet satisfaction that from what he had heard about the Geneva negotiations (which resulted in his release), "things are going the way I think they should." He claimed that he had been a U.S. spy, but, when questioned, he admitted that he had merely reported his observations of China to an American...
...Point Two of the agenda for Geneva, namely: "settlement of certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning...
...planted a bomb in the starboard wheel-well. Because the actual deaths occurred far beyond the Hong Kong police jurisdiction, Chow could only be charged with "conspiracy to murder" (maximum penalty: ten years). They would also have to find him. One month after the air crash, Chow fled to Formosa...