Word: formosae
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...such ways, Dulles spent 1954 in a ceaseless round of travel, logging 101,521 miles on journeys to Berlin, London, Paris, Caracas, Bonn, Geneva, Milan, Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business as he crossed...
...pact did not establish any new principle, but it wiped out some doubts. Said Dulles: "It is my hope that the signing of this defense treaty will put to rest once and for all rumors and reports that the U.S. will in any manner agree to the abandonment of Formosa and the Pescadores to Communist control...
...uneasily: "But I'm not as arrogant as Yoshida, eh?" A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program." Ichiro Hatoyama replied: "I intend to be so." Then a Tokyo worker plunged headlong into the intricacies of trade with Red China and Formosa. Easily, as if the question involved no difficulties, Hatoyama answered the worker: "The Chinese Communists and Nationalists are both good, independent nations. Both are our good neighbors. I want to establish relations with Russia and Red China as soon as it is feasible...
...signed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri and was afterwards purged, had been reassuring everybody that "Japan's place" lay within the U.S. alliance. Now he hedged. "The problem must be studied from the viewpoint of treaty conditions and actual reality," he said. "Japan has recognized the Formosa government. But the appearance on the mainland of a large Communist government is an actual fact. It is natural to approach this government . . . in matters of promoting trade...
...sign confessions, he clearly implied that they had. Despite MacKenzie's release, the outlook for his former U.S. comrades is still bleak. The Chinese told them that they would be held until U.S. policy toward Red China is "right," MacKenzie said. "The Chinese are not too pleased about Formosa and not too pleased about...