Word: formosae
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...obstacles in its effort to reduce the Far eastern crisis to manageable proportions. The Chinese communists have responded to the President's patience with contempt-once again they may have confused American desires for conciliation with weakness. The Chinese have apparently increased their preparations for an eventual assault on Formosa despite the American seventh Fleet patrol in the Formosa straits, and the dangers of an explosive incident are all too obvious. Although the Administration undoubtedly regards the new treaty with Chiang as purely defensive, there is the further danger that the Nationalists may attempt to entice the United States into...
...them on a small island off the coast . . . and were still holding them when I was in Indo-China. I was amazed to learn . . . our allies in World War II should have been interned in order to appease the Chinese Reds, who did not want these troops returned to Formosa ... It is all important to the security of the U.S. that the Associated States of Indo-China remain among the free nations of the world...
...Kung-Chao) Yeh, and uttered a most significant foreign-policy pronouncement. 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...
...Nationalist China, the treaty pledged that each will regard an attack on the other's territory in the West Pacific as "dangerous to its own peace and safety." For the Chinese Communist regime, it was a clear, unequivocal warning that an attack on Nationalistheld Formosa or the Pescadores will bring quick response by U.S. forces. Did it mean that a Communist attack on Formosa would touch off U.S. retaliation on the mainland of China? Said Secretary Dulles: "That would be a probable result...
...resulting position is this: the Chinese Communists are publicly and solemnly committed to the conquest of Formosa. The U.S., with the signing of the new treaty, is publicly and solemnly committed to defend Formosa against attack. This clarification makes pointless any further argument about the admission of Red China...