Word: formosae
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...Emerald Island. Meanwhile, the Senate was treading more cautiously. For some eight hours one day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees. At hand was a map of Formosa and the China coast, set on a metal tripod. The mainland was shown in a rich chocolate color, Formosa in emerald green. There were other maps, kept well covered and guarded by military personnel when not in use. It was a tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest...
...reading clerk of the U.S. Senate droned and stumbled through President Eisenhower's message on Formosa, about 40 Senators sat in the chamber listening intently. The faces of some reflected doubt-of others, determination. All looked grave. After the reading, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the joint resolution that would implement the message...
...Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers: "I believe while this thing is fraught with danger, it is far more dangerous to be guilty of inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both face. It seems to me that memories of the past should remind Peking and Moscow that they have never had it so good in the Pacific. Heaven help them if they move against us." Then Sieminski sat down, leaving...
Besides, said Mark Clark, "the $64 question was: Who would defect to whom?...In my opinion, more of the Chinese Communists would have deserted to our side...Here was a perfect testing ground...When [Chiang's troops] went back to Formosa, they would be much more of a threat to the southern Chinese mainland...My recommendations [to Washington] were never answered...
...opportunity. By acting as if he were only carrying out U.S. wishes, he could push an idea which he had long quietly urged on reluctant and dubious U.S. officials. In the House of Commons Sir Anthony minimized as nothing new Eisenhower's declared intent to defend Formosa, while emphasizing the references to a ceasefire. "The first concern of Her Majesty's government has been, and is, to stop the fighting," Eden insisted. From the Labor benches burst shrill criticisms. The U.S. proposal is "intervention" in a civil war, snapped 71-year-old Opposition Leader Clement Attlee. If hostilities...