Word: formosae
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...House Foreign Affairs Committee last week took a look at a $307 million appropriation for Formosa in the pending foreign aid bill. The Administration has not told Congress how it plans to use the money. Said Minnesota's Walter Judd, longtime supporter of Nationalist China: "The money will be wasted unless the Administration determines to succeed rather than to prepare excuses for failure. Truman will say, 'Well, we tried our level best, but it did no good.' Six words saved Greece. In the directive to Van Fleet were the words, 'advise and train at all levels...
...aggression. He listened to British arguments that Japan's recovery would injure Britain's textile trade, shipbuilding business. His answer in effect was that the nations have no right to legislate against a neighbor's industriousness. The British stubbornly objected to letting the Nationalist government in Formosa sign the treaty for China. Dulles contrived a lawyer's compromise: Japan should herself decide whether she would sign the treaty with Chiang...
...which China recognized the independence of Korea, ceded Formosa, the Pescadores Islands and the Liaotung Peninsula (in Manchuria) to Japan, and agreed to pay Japan a heavy cash indemnity...
...security arrangements. While Nehru was telling off Pakistan, Nehru's government sent a note to Washington formally protesting against certain provisions in the Japanese peace treaty draft (TIME, July 23). India feels 1) the treaty should not provide for U.S. troops to be stationed in Japan; 2) Formosa should be handed over to Red China; 3) the Ryukyu and Bonin islands should be returned to Japan, instead of being turned into U.S. bases...
Said he last month: "I am quite certain from all the documents I have examined that the war in Korea was not started by an invasion from the north but by action in the south which gave President Truman the opportunity of sending troops into Formosa...