Word: formosae
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...precision which can utterly destroy military targets without endangering unrelated civilian centers." Any overt Chinese Communist attack probably means that the Reds "have decided on general war in Asia." In that case, the free nations would retaliate from ''the south, center and north" (i.e., from Southeast Asia, Formosa and Korea...
...were for formally censuring Nye, but not for expelling him: to do so during an election year would be to court defeat. Clem Attlee himself leaned to the moderates' view. Attlee's usual response to Nye Bevan's bull-like forays into vital issues-e.g., Formosa, negotiations with Russia, gibing at the U.S.-is to adopt as much of the Bevanite position as he can, and thereby undercut the Bevanites' appeal. It has led him up some strange alleys...
Cramped but Free. Author Caldwell tells the story of Captain Shih of the Free Chinese guerrillas and his sabotage squad of eleven men who land on the Red China mainland opposite Formosa. Working their way to a bridge marked for demolition, they stumble into a Communist ambush. The squad's survivors disperse into the tall grass. After a dangerous trek, into the mountains lying inland, Shih is picked up by the anti-Communist peasant underground and passed along to the coast. Shih's friends cannot get him a boat, but they find him a log. One chill autumn...
Captain Shih's story is part of an ardent, often eloquent answer given by Author Caldwell to those who say Formosa or the offshore islands are not really worth saving. The argument, in Caldwell's opinion, has overlooked the Captain Shihs of Asia, "the men and women who still have faith...
Last month President Magsaysay, encouraged by the U.S. decision to give treaty protection to Formosa and the Pescadores, strongly backed the U.S. "policy of firmness" and introduced in the Philippine Congress a resolution stating that "we stand squarely behind the U.S." Angry Claro Recto, an influential member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a quibbling substitute motion, leaving out Magsaysay's words of approval and support, and reflecting Recto's neutralist way of thinking. For four weeks the Senate bitterly debated the matter. When it came to a vote last week, Neutralist Recto was utterly beaten...