Word: formosae
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...Quemoy and Matsu can be left to Chiang's forces, with the U.S. maintaining a static defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. U.S. land-based and carrier air power would fend off Red bombing attacks on Formosa, might possibly pursue the attackers to their bases. This alternative accepts the loss of Matsu and Quemoy...
...diplomatic recognition of Communist China must, as yesterday's editorial pointed out, be considered only as a first step toward settlement, of the tensions in the Far East. Without a satisfactory solution of the problems of Formosa and the Chinese seat on the United Nations Security Council, recognition could accomplish little...
...recognizing Mao Tse-tung the United States would, in effect, reverse its two China policy in favor of a policy of one China, military and diplomatically consistent, and of a separate and independent Formosa. Yet mere recognition would provide no solution to the essential problem of American relations with Chiang Kai-shek. If the U.S. continues to recognize Chiang as the Nationalist ruler of China, she should not expect reciprocity from the Communists; for it is written into the Chinese Constitution that "the People's Republic will not recognize any nation which has diplomatic relations with the reactionary Kuomintang clique...
Plebiscite on Formosa...
...equally clear that the United States cannot afford, for military and strategic considerations, to allow the island of Formosa to fall into unfriendly hands. For this reason, the seventh fleet which now guards the Straits of Formosa cannot be withdrawn, since it is the West's only guarantee of the island's security. The most reasonable solution to this apparent dilemma would be one which the British have suggested--a U.N. administered plebiscite on Formosa, by which the seven million natives would be allowed to determine their own ruler for the first time since Japanese occupation. Although a plebiscite might...