Word: formosae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end, the last big holdout was heard from: India will boycott the conference. Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering Parliament that he opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...
...proposed treaty with Japan is "basically unacceptable ... It is in reality a treaty for ... the purpose of rearming Japan and preparing a new world war of aggression for the U.S." An acceptable treaty, continued Chou, would 1) grant Red China control over Formosa, the Pescadores and other islands off the China mainland, 2) approve Russia's Yalta title to South Sakhalin and the Kuriles, and 3) bar U.S. armed forces in Japan. Knowing that they could make no headway against the U.S., the British and the French, the Communists evidently hoped to keep India, Indonesia and other Asian governments...
Colonel Dave Barrett, now a U.S. military attaché in Formosa, is an old China hand known for his plump amiability and his fluency in Mandarin. In 20 years of service in China, he saw the warlords fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
Washington called Peking's story "a bare-faced lie." Dave Barrett spoke up from Formosa: "I never at any time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China...
Then last month, the husband confided that he planned to flee to Formosa. "I was worried on hearing this, fearing that this criminal husband of mine would escape, so I said, 'Instead of leaving today, wait until tomorrow.' I went to the police. That night I could not fall asleep, but around midnight the police comrades came and arrested this harmful thing which was not my husband but my enemy. I feel happy to have got rid of a menace to the people...