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...Stand on Formosa...
...speech last week (see below), Secretary of State Dulles, without naming the islands, clarified the U.S. position on Quemoy and Matsu. What he said was simple, almost trite: he warned the Communists again that if they persisted in regarding these islands as stepping stones to Formosa, and if they attacked them, the U.S., committed to defend Formosa, might accept the Communist definition of such an assault as the beginning of an attack on Formosa and retaliate accordingly...
...cheered by Dulles' speech. The anti-Communist Hong Kong newspaper, Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that Dulles brought "joy and comfort." Other Asian voices recalled the Korean truce, the Indo-China truce and the Tachen Islands evacuation, and said that Dulles' announcement on the offshore islands between Formosa and the mainland indicated that the U.S. had finally made up its mind to take a stand. The Dulles sentence that most impressed Asians: "If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their Western allies are disposed to retreat wherever Communism threatens the peace, then the entire area...
...problem re-emerged in even more complex for after the signing of the Japanese peace treaty in 1951. Japan gave up all legal claim to Formosa, but the treaty was silent as to the rightful ownership of the island. In its preliminary statement on the treaty, the Soviet Union cited the Cairo Declaration to claim that Formosa belonged to Communist China. In reply, the United States suggested that an international conference should decide the fate of Formosa, since the Cairo Declaration must be "subject to a fixed peace settlement where all relevant factors should be considered." Great Britain offered still...
...reply to a query by the Soviet government, John Foster Dulles frankly explained why the Japanese peace treaty had left the status of Formosa undetermined. "As regards Formosa, the differences of opinion are such that it could not be definitely dealt with by a Japanese peace treaty to which the Allied powers as a whole are parties," he said. Today formal control over Formosa remains in the hands of the nations which signed the Japanese peace treaty. Power politics, rather than legal arguments, will probably determine the ultimate status of Formosa. Until then, no single nation has legal sovereignty over...