Word: formosae
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Late in January the Congress, at his request, had passed-almost unanimously-a resolution giving him full authority to use U.S. forces as he saw fit for the defense of Formosa and related territories. The U.S. was committed to defend Formosa and the Pescadores; the open question was what it would do if the Communists attacked the Nationalist-held islands off the China coast, e.g., Matsu and Quemoy. Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George best summarized the resolution: "It means, in explicit terms, that the decision will be a personal one of the President...
...Crystal Ball. That was where the matter stood at midweek when 217 reporters crowded into the President's news conference. What did Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower have to say about the situation in the Formosa Strait...
...with his Navy chief, the President cautioned that the U.S. should follow a policy of "strong patience," should not be in the position of saying, "They are going to attack me today; therefore, I attack them yesterday." Did he think that the U.S. could fulfill its commitment to defend Formosa if Quemoy and Matsu were lost? In his answer, General Eisenhower showed that he is giving serious consideration to the argument that loss of the off-shore islands would have a serious effect on anti-Communist morale in Asia. Said he: "[Morale] is a factor that you must always calculate...
During this session, while the 84th Congress has been deliberating on the state of the U.S.. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity...
Social Credit Leader Solon Low first denounced Coldwell's attack as "a speech that will give comfort to the enemy." Then he turned back to the key question of Quemoy and Matsu. "They are important to Red China only as a jumping-off place for an attack on Formosa," Low said. "The U.S. should be given moral support . . . because of the importance of Formosa for the defense of the free people of southeastern Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands...