Word: formosae
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Largely at the insistence of Britain, the pact did not include Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa. But this exclusion was, in effect, a good point for the U.S. it left the U.S. free to take its own independent action in connection with Formosa, which it has long recognized as its special responsibility. To make this point clear, Secretary Dulles flew from Manila to Formosa, rode up Grass Mountain to the residence of Chiang Kaishek. There Dulles assured the Nationalist Chinese President that his people did not stand alone. Said Dulles: "The United States is proud to stand by those...
Familiar Pattern. More immediate and more vexing than the problem of Formosa was the threat to Quemoy. In a little more than two weeks the Chinese Communists had lobbed 10,000 shells on Quemoy and neighboring Little Quemoy. The Reds were reportedly building up their forces along the mainland coast. From Quemoy's batteries, and from their own destroyers, the Nationalists retaliated with shellfire; from Formosa, with air-delivered bombs...
...over in a short time. When it ended after three years of fighting, the world was assured in glowing terms that aggression had been "repelled" and Communism had suffered a setback. But the Communists haven't stopped fighting. They now have started another war-this time against Formosa. Planes have been engaged in the raids off the coast of China, and the word is that the Soviet navy is into the area where the U.S. Seventh Fleet is also engaged in some maneuvering...
...square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...
...weeks ago the Communists launched a quick raid on the island, then followed it with a heavy artillery plastering. In reply, for seven straight days last week, Chiang's forces attacked the mainland around Amoy with planes, artillery and fire from destroyers and gunboats. F-84 jets from Formosa joined the battle, pouring rockets and napalm on the enemy. The Communists answered with artillery and ack-ack. They did not use their MIGs -reflecting the caution they displayed in Korea, where MIGs did not venture over the front lines...