Word: formosae
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...Formosa...
Chiang Kai-shek may once have been useful to China. It does not necessarily follow that he is still useful . . . You place so much importance on Chiang's constant striving to do what is right for "his" people. Why is there not a plebiscite on Formosa, then, to discover just what the people think is right...
...story. You are one of the few American publications still able to retain an independence of opinion about Free China amid the maelstrom of lies. It seems that many-including Americans-are convinced that we Chinese want Mao Tse-tung and not Chiang Kaishek. As long as Chiang and Formosa exist, the free and enslaved Chinese will live and fight on in hope...
...Britain, the Conservative Party adopted a campaign tone that sounded as though it would give the Communists everything they wanted in the Far East. In Viet Nam the instability of the new U.S.-supported government and the resulting civil strife was a critical problem (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the Formosa Strait there lay the danger of possibly blundering onto the low road of appeasement...
...idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour of the U.S. last year, he told everyone from President Eisenhower on down that he believes "in self-help and development for Asia-not handouts...