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...Zealand. As a temporary member of the Security Council, New Zealand was nominated to take the lead. Among them, they agreed that the cease-fire proposal should be limited to the outlying islands; if Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai got to arguing about Formosa, there would be no hope of agreement on anything...
Blue Water Between. At week's end, Sir Leslie Munro, New Zealand's delegate to the U.N., formally asked for a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the threat to peace in the Formosa Straits. And in his constituency at Warwick, Eden spelled out more of what he had in mind. The Communist Chinese "must not think that because they have been in conflict with the United Nations about Korea that the intention is to ask them to give up what they regard as their rights...
Their rights, Eden had made clear, definitely include in British eyes the offshore islands. Other Foreign Office spokesmen sketched in Eden's plan: to yield the offshore islands, including Quemoy, to the Communists in exchange for a promise to let Formosa alone. "What we want is 75 miles of blue water between the two contending parties," said one. Then, with boundaries tidied up and hostilities in abeyance, Chiang Kai-shek could be recognized as sovereign in Formosa, Mao Tse-tung in continental China, and both accorded recognition and eventual acceptance into the U.N. Assembly. This week, Russia announced guarded...
Though the British government last week had its mind on Formosa, it was also keeping uneasy watch on Malaya (pop. 7,000,000), its biggest strategic and economic stake in Southeast Asia. Against fewer than 6,000 Communist guerrillas, the British are currently deploying more than 250,000 troops, home guards and police. General Sir Gerald Templer's brilliant slash-and-starve campaign of two years ago drove the demoralized Communists into jungle lairs, but the Communist victories in nearby Indo-China have produced a new, hopeful rallying cry in the Malay jungles: "Father Mao Is Coming...
Said Pearson: "I think that a strong case can be made for the neutralization of Formosa both in order to prevent any assault upon it by Communist forces and also so that it will not be used as a base for invasion of the mainland...