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...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...
Most of the news in the speech was in a single paragraph. Said the general: "There is little doubt that the yielding of Formosa and the seating of China in the U.N. was fully planned when I called upon the enemy commanders in Korea on March 24 to meet me in the field to arrange armistice terms .. . The opposition I expressed . . . with the overwhelming support it received from the American people, unquestionably wrecked the secret plan to yield on these issues as the price for peace in Korea...
MacArthur's counterpunch had plenty of steam behind it. Truman, he said, "would relieve many millions of patriotic minds ... if, instead of indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions . . . would the U.S. permit Formosa to fall in Red hands or Communist China to be seated in the U.N. This simple and understandable assurance he has never given. I predict he never will...
...What to do about Formosa...
...wanted a Japan able to stand on its feet and contribute to the stabilization of Asia. One of the most dangerous conflicts was with Britain. Shortly after Herbert Morrison became Foreign Secretary in March 1951, the British government thought that Japan should not recognize the Chinese Nationalist government in Formosa as the government of China. Dulles flew to London. He tried to persuade the British to let Japan decide for itself which Chinese government to recognize. The British cabinet first decided not to go along on this basis, later reversed its decision...