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...sympathy" for the U.S. President's aim of a "true and total peace," the Soviet statement: 1) unsympathetically rejected all of Eisenhower's minimum terms for a global settlement; 2) indirectly countered with some Soviet terms, e.g., no rearming of Western Germany, a U.N. seat-and Formosa -for Red China, no change in Red domination of Eastern Europe. Though there seemed no meeting of minds at all, the "Soviet leaders" still wanted "a serious, businesslike discussion of problems both by direct negotiations and, when necessary, within the framework...
...General Assembly's seventh and longest session (100 working days) ended in a salutary display of unity. Before the house was a Burmese resolution accusing Nationalist (Formosa) China of aggression because of the presence of Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi's for aging army in East Burma (TIME, April 13). Russian propaganda has often accused the U.S. of financing and directing Li's army, but this time the Russians did not try to make any anti-American mischief out of the situation...
India's neutralist press generally groused about Western colonialism, but hailed Eisenhower's vision of a super Point Four program. In Formosa, part of the press wistfully wished that Eisenhower had mentioned Formosa; but all agreed that the President's address was farsighted. And in Russia, oddly enough, this firmest of U.S. policy pronouncements got one of the gentlest reviews Moscow has accorded a Western cold-war policy statement. Moscow papers printed selected extracts with no immediate recrimination...
...unified, independent and democratic" Korea. Leviero went on to say that the administration wants to persuade the Chinese Communists to stop sending arms to warring comrades in Indo-China in return for a U.S.-French "guarantee that Indo-China would be governed by native leaders." As to Formosa, the Administration is considering a "United Nations trusteeship for that strategic island, with the creation of a republic of Formosa as the ultimate goal." This seemed to imply 1) recognition of Red China, and 2) dropping of U.S. support for a return of Chiang Kai-shek to the China mainland...
...Upset. The stories rocked the White House and Capitol Hill. The President's office was harried by alarmed calls from Congressmen and U.N. representatives. To White House newsmen, Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty hurriedly issued a strong denial: "The reported Administration policy on Formosa and Korea is without foundation in fact." The Administration, he continued, had neither 1) considered a U.N. trusteeship for Formosa, nor 2) reached any conclusion about a partition of Korea...