Word: formosae
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RECOGNIZE FORMOSA AS A SOVEREIGN STATE...
LONDON'S ECONOMIST, respected voice of Britain's middle-of-the-roaders, offers the British government a plan for Formosa...
THERE are three possible solutions for the problem of Formosa. The first is to abandon it to Communist conquest. Britain has always been ready to do this, but it is unlikely that America can now be persuaded to do so. There are good strategic reasons for keeping the island in friendly hands, and no one has suggested an alternative refuge for Chiang and his followers. The second course is to make the island a ward of the United Nations. This cannot be regarded as a practical proposition...
...third possibility is to recognize Formosa as a sovereign state on the grounds that it is effectively controlled by a government which repudiates the authority of Peking and cannot be dislodged except by the defeat of the United States in war, just as the People's Republic, which was helped to power by Russia, cannot be overthrown except by the defeat of Russia. The British official doctrine is the "realist" one that recognition does not imply approval, but merely acceptance in international relations of an effective and apparently stable rule over a particular territory. It would be well...
Four Demands. For three hours the talk ranged freely over Asian issues like the "regulation" of Formosa, the seating of Red China in the U.N., the future of Korea. Mao, now speaking vigorously, now pausing to take soft note of the British replies, felt free to lay down "what Socialism in Britain can do to facilitate peace in the East...