Word: formosae
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...military effort, never made during the Korean war, to defeat and overthrow Chinese Communism. Twenty divisions of R.O.K. troops, he reminded the Congress, are ready in Korea; 20 more could be mustered, with military aid from the U.S., and another 630,000 troops, according to Rhee, are available in Formosa. From the U.S., only naval and air units, said Syngman Rhee, would be needed...
...their opponents, thousands of Free Chinese guerrillas are still fighting in the interior of China . . . Red China's army numbers 2,500,000, but its loyalty is not reliable, as was proved when 14,369 members of the Communist Chinese army captured in Korea chose to go to Formosa, and only 220 chose to return to Red China. The return of the Chinese main land would automatically produce a victorious end to the wars in Korea and Indo-China, and would swing the balance of power so strongly against the Soviet Union that it would not dare to risk...
...attitude towards China." Why are settlements so difficult in Korea and Indo-China? Because "at the back of their minds, the Chinese regard it as an imperialistic attack upon them." If the U.S. would recognize Red China's right to sit in the U.N., and turn over Formosa as a trusteeship, the Chinese fears would be set at rest, he implied, and settlements would come as a matter of course...
...still "technically" at war with the U.N. in Korea, and "when it is at this moment going to achieve a resounding triumph by the success of the stimulated war in Indo-China." Churchill agreed, too, that he did not "see any reason why at some subsequent date Formosa should not be treated in the manner" suggested by Attlee...
Twenty-two of the Polish crewmen and the Praca's captain have asked for and been granted political asylum in Formosa...