Word: formosae
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...thrown on the defensive in such a round-table conference, with Britain, perhaps, pressing for more trade with Communist China, or the French trying to unload their commitments in Indo-China, or the Indians calling for U.N. recognition of Communist China and the neutralization-if not surrender-of Formosa. Besides, Syngman Rhee had warned Dulles that South Korea would not sit in the conference if India were there...
...prisoners at Camp Three never stopped harassing their captors. Recalled Corporal Salvatore Conte of Brooklyn: "They said that Chiang Kai-shek had no legal rights to Formosa. It was supposed to be a free discussion, and so I piped up and said that according to agreements made between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, there wasn't anything wrong with Chiang being on Formosa. I really didn't know what I was talking about, but . . . I wanted to say something to knock them down." The reactionaries set fire to the lecture hall, poured ink into Chinese laundry baskets, refused...
...Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
...almost without realizing it, is heading towards a new bilateralism. Acting alone, Washington guaranteed Formosa, pledged aid to Syngman Rhee, expects to sign a treaty with Franco Spain. This week the U.S. and its U.N. allies disagreed publicly in the U.N. General Assembly: though some clucked over this trend, and others were made nervous by it, it brought a refreshing new realism into events...
...before they are moved north into neutral Indian custody for "explanations" by the Communists about why they should return home, anti-Communist prisoners are being reassured of their rights and opportunities. Chiang Kai-shek's picture, a statement in his name assuring Chinese prisoners of a welcome to Formosa, and personal talks by Nationalist Chinese are a conspicuous part of this procedure...