Word: formosae
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...support for Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa. Churchill's speech before Congress (see below) put a sharp new firmness in the British outlook. By praising the U.S. stand in Korea and Formosa, by promising "increasing harmony" in the Anglo-American Far Eastern policy, and finally by warning the Communists of "prompt, resolute and effective" retaliation should a Korean truce be broken, the Prime Minister brought Washington and London into dramatic, forceful alignment. It was a bold gesture of leadership that he would have to defend before Parliament...
...Prime Minister: "You have wisely been resolute, members of Congress, in confronting Chinese Communist aggression. We take our stand at your side . . . I am very glad that whatever diplomatic divergencies there may be from time to time about procedure, you do not allow the Chinese anti-Communists on Formosa to be invaded and massacred from the mainland...
...difficulty is language. In the intelligence section there are five Chinese Nationalists from Formosa, and 22 more to run the educational classes, which hope to teach prisoners the ways of democracy. Only one officer on Colonel Fitzgerald's staff-a Korean-American captain-can speak either Korean or Chinese. Said one officer to TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "If we want to question a prisoner, we have to keep him isolated until we're through with him. If we return him to the compound, he'll slip off in the mob and change his name." Said...
John Foster Dulles' blueprint for peace with Japan lacked a cornerstone: Japan's future relations with her old enemy China. Since Britain and the U.S. could not agree whether China meant Peking or Formosa, the decision was left to Japan. Last week Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida made known his choice. In a letter to Dulles, he wrote that Japan wants "a treaty which will re-establish normal relations" with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. As for Red China: "The Japanese government has no intention to conclude a bilateral treaty with the Communist regime...
...which had been spreading Red propaganda in Hong Kong's movie studios, charged them with "political activities subversive to peace and order" and chucked them out of the colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review, semi-official organ of Hong Kong's financiers, editorially reflected the new boldness: "Formosa must remain [a citadel] until Peking can be made . . . less aggressive . . ." said the Review. "Chiang Kai-shek's prestige is recovering. He is now looked upon as an ally of considerable value...