Word: formosae
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Many of the Chinese prisoners want to join the Nationalists on Formosa. Many more, both Chinese and North Korean, know that if returned to Communist control they will be treated as traitors, or at least as suspects contaminated by contact with the free world. There were unconfirmed but plausible stories that some had threatened mass suicide, that others had drawn up petitions signed in blood, that fights rage in the U.N. stockades between Communist and anti-Communist factions...
Cardinal Spellman was greeted in Formosa by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, reported that 300 Catholic Chinese prisoners of war in Korea had begged him to try to get them to Formosa to join the Nationalist troops...
...Paris, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky accused the U.S. of preparing "new acts of aggression" against Red China. The U.S., he said, is transporting Chinese Nationalist troops from Formosa to the southern borders of China, and preparing to use its Seventh Fleet for aggression against the Chinese Reds. "These flagrantly illegal acts," cried Vishinsky, "will be declared to be defensive measures against China's aggression whenever events begin to take their course on the southern borders of China, in Siam, Burma and Yunnan Province...
...Chinese buildup in the south. The southern city of Nanning is now, thanks to Soviet aid, a big Chinese army base. The Peking government announced that it had completed a rail line south from Nanning to within ten miles of the Indo-Chinese border. Reports from Formosa, not always reliable, said Communist leaders from all Southeast Asia had been summoned to a conference on "the early liberation" of Southeast Asia...
...billion budget. To get the most for his money, he proposes a strong Navy, an "all powerful" Air Force, and an Army no bigger than 3,000,000 men. He would throw in U.S. sea and air power to protect "any island nations which desire our help," i.e., Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific, and "Great Britain of course" in the Atlantic. He would protect the Suez lifeline with troops, if necessary. He would allow the Army "occasional extensions . . . into Europe, Asia and Africa," but "I do not believe that in time of peace...