Word: formosae
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...telegram sent to the President Wednesday, the group urged "immediate steps to extricate the United States and the world from the present menace of war in the Formosa Straits...
...Tachens) and promptly moved 40 MIGs onto it. Far to the south, Nationalists detected another base abuilding near Swatow, which may not be complete for perhaps six months. But when it is, it will provide Communist jet air cover, not only for Quemoy and Matsu, but over the whole Formosa Strait. Then it would not be the offshore islands which were in danger; it would be Formosa itself...
...Chiang thought he had had a pledge that the U.S. would defend Quemoy and the Matsus. But last week Secretary of State Dulles reiterated, as he has been doing lately, that "there has been no commitment, of any kind, sort or description, expressed or implied," to defend anything but Formosa and the Pescadores. "We have the jitters," admits one high Nationalist...
...answer is crucial not only to Formosa. It is also crucial to the whole area of Southeast Asia. Scattered from clattering, neon-bright Hong Kong to Saigon's gaudy Chinese city of Cholon, from stilt houses and river boats along Bangkok's green canals to high-walled compounds in Djakarta and Siantar in Sumatra, from bamboo slums to sleek modern apartments in Singapore, live 12 million Chinese. For them, Chiang and Formosa are the only counter to the pull of Communist China on their loyalty...
...stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part of China just as Long Island is a part of the U.S.," he said...