Word: formosae
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...Accepting the invitation of the United States National Security Council to participate in discussions to end hostilities in the Formosa region...
While Chou En-lai spoke softly in Bandung his Communist followers were feverishly building a bigger and bigger force along China's east coast across from the Matsus, Quemoy and Formosa...
...past fortnight Nationalist and U.S. intelligence sources have detected signs of two additional new airfields being started on the Fukien coast-near Amoy, the mainland port opposite Quemoy. They bring to five the total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China...
...Washington the new intelligence was studied carefully by Secretary of State Dulles, Assistant Secretary Walter Robertson, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Anderson, J.C.S. Chief Arthur W. Radford and Pacific Commander Felix Stump. They concluded that the Communists might soon be able to carry out their threat of an attack on Formosa. In the eyes of the U.S. strategists, this gave a new shape to the Formosa crisis: Quemoy and the Matsus became incidental; Formosa itself and the U.S. Seventh Fleet were in the eye of danger...
With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...