Word: formosae
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Trouble on a Limb. Ambiguity is an ancient and necessary tool of diplomacy. In the case of Quemoy and Matsu, which are closer to the China mainland than to Formosa, it provides the U.S. with a flexibility and freedom of action, i.e., the President allows himself the chance to assess the circumstances of attack before opening fire on Communist China. Dulles has a second reason for ambiguity: in Britain, where the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is unpopular, the Churchill government has gone a long way to endorse the U.S. stand on defending Formosa, runs the risk of weakening even...
...further retreat seriously demoralizes those Asian political leaders who have crawled out on a limb to support U.S. policy. For example, in the politically sensitive Philippines, President Ramon Magsaysay last month summoned all his prestige to fight through the Philippine Senate a resolution backing the U.S. stand on Formosa. Magsaysay's supporters, erroneously interpreted the U.S. position as insuring defense of Quemoy and Matsu. On this basis Magsaysay and his friends won a smashing victory. Last week, with talk of abandonment of the islands, Magsaysay's opponents missed no chance to say: "We told you so; never trust...
...shore islands. We hold that the assumption [that the islands must be kept as possible steppingstones to the reconquest of the China mainland] is an illusion which has only explosive potentialities. The more reasonable place to draw the line of the defense perimeter of the free world is around Formosa and the Pescadores...
...mindful of Japanese aggression to want to do much business again. "No amount of amnesia on our part," a Japanese newspaper reminded its readers recently, "will erase the impressions made on the minds of the injured parties." World War II wiped out Japan's captive markets in Korea, Formosa and Manchuria, and the cold war has closed the door to trade with mainland China. Yet the old cries of Japanese underselling are still heard) Item: in Dublin last week, the Irish Rosary Council protested that even a 37.5% import duty was insufficient to keep out Japanese rosaries...
...reason for regarding China as an enemy." Desire for Neutralism. Looking ahead, some Westerners fear a revived Japanese appetite for conquest, but the appetite, if it exists, would be hard to gratify without the great war-making resources of Manchuria and the food-producing potential of Formosa, which are both now lost to Japan. A livelier concern to the U.S. is the possibility that an independent Japan might one day be drawn too close to the Communist mainland. In Communist theorizing, Japan, the Ruhr of the Orient, is the big prize in the East...