Word: formosae
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...Labor Party's visit to China: if Attlee and clique wish to see real Chinese democracy, may I suggest an enlightening trip to the island of Formosa. Only there can they today expect to see uninhibited Chinese reaction to social and political injustices-and they won't need their "made-in-Socialist England" rose-colored glasses to enjoy these advancements being made by the "New" China developing on Formosa...
Attlee neglected to add just how he would get rid of Chiang's 500,000 troops -unless Red China's armies do the job for him. "He could hardly have said more," wrote the Daily Telegraph, "without actually inviting the Communists to attack [Formosa]." Snapped the London Daily Sketch: "Attlee has dropped a brick that might do as much damage as the hydrogen bomb...
More important than what was said at Peking, however, was what was not said. Formosa, target of Red verbal fury for weeks, vanished suddenly from official tongues. Neither Mao nor Liu mentioned "liberating" Formosa, and in the first two days of the Congress scarcely anyone else did either. Subsequently, according to Peking radio, one speaker fierily demanded the "ultimate" liberation of Formosa; a few days before, however, the word had been "immediate." For whatever dark reasons, China's Red rulers were for the moment not promising quick victory. Perhaps at Quemoy they had found out what they wanted...
...Communists pressed Correspondent Dixon to describe U.S. units that he had seen as a war correspondent in Korea ("I played dummy'') and military installations on Formosa, where he had made a five-week tour ("I told them only what I had written"). Correspondent Applegate, after long questioning, finally wrote a phony description of U.S. germ warfare in Korea. He decided that the Communists wanted the "confession" as the price for letting them go free. But the Reds complained that his confession contained "lies" and "inaccuracies," so he went back to his cell, read germ-warfare confessions that were...
...There is much talk of the "Oriental Mind" in these days of tension in Korea, Indo China, India, Formosa, and the rest of the Far East. For those who want to know more about it, Social Sciences 111, the "History of Far Eastern Civilization," given by experts John K. Fairbank, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, has a long list of satisfied customers...