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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Victory at a Price | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Reactionaries | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Shot Across the Bow | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The New Fluidity | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Cold Armistice | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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