Word: formosae
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...Russian note was stiff. One of their tankers was missing, and the U.S. Navy must have it. The Russian story was that the 8,840-ton Soviet tanker Tuapse was stopped one morning last week in the predawn hours 125 miles south of Formosa by a "destroyer type" vessel. The captain just had time to get off a message reporting this when radio contact...
...stream of cables asking, 'What do we price the magazine at today?' Originally, TIME in China cost 150 Chinese dollars (30? U.S.), but with the sharp devaluation of the coin, TIME was soon going for 30,000 dollars a copy and higher." Current price of TIME on Formosa: five Taiwan dollars...
...Nationalist War Ministry on Formosa reported that the mutilated bodies of 52 men & women, all lashed with wire to boards, had been pulled from the sea off the China Coast in the past week...
...context of the news from Geneva, Chiang hardly needed to describe the colossus that had grown up on the Chinese mainland since the Nationalist flight to Formosa 4½ years ago. But the Gimo did remind the world that his own war with the Chinese Reds has never ended.* He called the existence and swelling power of Red China a "calamity of mankind." How to deal with it? Chiang's solution is also Formosa's obsession: "Recovery of the mainland." For this, he pleaded for arms and moral support from the free world. "We have confidence...
...strongly anti-Communist Hong Kong, Formosa and Korea, there was concern that the U.S. was hobbled by its own allies in talking of a European-based Asian alliance or one including India, Indonesia or Burma. In their view, the U.S. should base Pacific defense on smaller but more enthusiastic allies: South Korea, Formosa, Thailand, the Philippines...