Word: formosae
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...want the Chinese Communists to have Quemoy and Matsu because they think the transfer of these islands will lessen the danger of a war of encounter. They want blue water between the Communists and what the U.S. is committed to defend. Actually, they would not be sorry to see Formosa fall because that would put still more blue water between the U.S. and the Communists...
...their own people . . . [If they] should prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile negotiations and practical agreements between the U.S. and the new Russia." Meanwhile, international Communism's aggressive designs must be thwarted. The Secretary of State explained why, to do so in the Formosa Strait, the U.S. was required to advance its defensive perimeter toward the China mainland. "The U.S. has no commitment and no purpose to defend the coastal islands as such. I repeat, as such...
...basic purpose is to assure that Formosa and the Pescadores will not be forcibly taken over by the Chinese Communists. However, Foreign Minister Chou, of the Communists, said that they will use all their forces to take Formosa, and they treat the coastal islands as means to that...
...procession of Truman crises. For example, Ike takes a serious view about provocative incidents such as the shooting down of U.S. planes, but he refuses to get headline-bent about them; he decided not to address a joint session of Congress to make his request for permission to defend Formosa (TIME, Jan. 31), because he did not want to create excitement...
After hours, Dulles and Anthony Eden (whose trip to the Far East is the first ever made by a British Foreign Secretary while still in office) will take up Topic A, having come halfway around the world to resume the debate on ground close to Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...