Word: formosae
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...Formosa...
...believe," said Diplomat Tsiang, "that an independent offensive on the part of my government will be welcomed by our fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...
Bigart found the camp excited about President Eisenhower's deneutralization of Formosa, and hopeful that it meant that they now would be allowed to rejoin Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
...Eastern policy, Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson tends to see eye to eye with Britain's Anthony Eden and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. But last week, when both Eden and Nehru criticized the U.S. decision to end the Seventh Fleet patrol off Formosa (see INTERNATIONAL), Pearson cautiously parted company with them. Rising in Parliament, he said: "[The] statement by President Eisenhower . . . contained much that was wise and heartening to us all ... Canadians know President Eisenhower well . . . and have full confidence ... in his peaceful and constructive purposes. And I am convinced that one of these purposes...
...gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...