Word: formosae
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...December 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson told a TIME correspondent: "What we must do now is shake loose from the Chinese Nationalists. It will be harder to make that necessary break with them if we go to Formosa." On the same day, another high State Department source told the same correspondent: "Acheson has been steadily arguing with Truman to go along on an early recognition of Communist China. Just before Truman left for Key West, Acheson got him to admit the logic of early recognition. Truman said that Acheson had made a forceful case. The trouble...
...four proposals, Reischauer considers a full blockade of the Chinese coast the best with which to start. The others do not seem nearly so advisable to him, particularly the one advocating a landing in China. He pointed out also that "there might not be enough Chinese troops in Formosa to make the use of the Nationalists in Korea worthwhile...
...invitation . . ." The new mutual-defense treaties with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are welcome, but do not go far enough: "We are going about this business by bits and pieces and getting ourselves as a nation into a dangerous position . . . What about the Philippines? The island of Formosa is essential to the defense of the Philippines [yet] our national Government has been on-again, off-again on Formosa four times in two years...
...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (now held by the Chinese Nationalists), Korea, the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Russia got both at Yalta), the 623 islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, now an important U.S. air base...
...Formosa, U.S. newsmen asked a Nationalist spokesman why six years had elapsed before steps were taken to punish the alleged corruption. The embarrassed reply: "I suppose we have to blame it on our own inefficiency...