Word: formosae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...determination to respond to peace talk with peace talk was carefully explained to Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa last week by Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson and J.C.S. Chief Arthur Radford, who at the same time assured Chiang that the U.S. intends to augment the U.S. Air Force strength now based upon Formosa...
Clearly, President Eisenhower had decided that the U.S. would not sound more belligerent than the Communists. If the Chinese Reds want to talk about a ceasefire in the Formosa Strait, then the U.S. will talk. The President would not demand that the Chinese Nationalists participate in all such discussions...
...world basis, all this added up to net progress for the U.S. and its allies. The Reds still had the initiative in the Formosa Strait-it was they who could start a war or grab territory-but the U.S. was parrying their diplomatic thrusts. For the moment, the anti-Communist feeling shown at Bandung was the big, new fact in Asia. And the recent European success of the anti-Communist forces far outbalanced all Red Asian gains...
President Eisenhower's statement that the U.S. is willing to negotiate with Communist China on a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait set off high winds on Capitol Hill. Quick and bitter criticism came from Senate Republican Leader William Knowland and from Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner. Retired Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, onetime (1945-49) U.S. commandant in Berlin and now a vice-chancellor of New York University, also spoke out bluntly against his old commander. Finally, at week's end, a dozen G.O.P. Senators, rallied to action by New Jersey's Senator...
...that would have committed the Senate, in advance, to reject any negotiated settlement relinquishing any territory to Communists anywhere. Cried Jenner: "The air is full of foreboding that a carefully laid plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that no hidden appeasers can pervert...