Word: formosae
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...this mean that Chou Enlai, cocky after his victory in Indo-China, was now ready to attack across the Formosa Strait, even at the risk of taking on the U.S. Navy? His words clearly implied that; but U.S. intelligence has reported no unusual military buildup along the China coast during the past six months...
...likelier possibility is that the Reds will beat the war drums until war over Formosa seems imminent and inevitable...
...whom 71-year-old Clement Attlee calls "an old man [commanding] aging forces." By this time (if old patterns repeat themselves), the U.S. will be made to seem a warlike power, and Chou En-lai will step forward, ready to settle everything-if only he is given Formosa or a free seat...
...stands firm, resisting its allies' pressure, Chou will have lost nothing, and enjoyed provoking a new split between the U.S. and Britain. But what if the U.S. weakens under its allies' pressure? Formosa may be lost by default...
...does this "peaceful" government mean to use "the second largest army in the world," which it says it will aim to build? Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful...