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...different question. Could it be that Dewey, first of the big Republicans to come out for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23), hopes to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower cabinet? He wasn't saying. But Dewey's Asiatic tour is taking him to Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates, in Tom Dewey's pocket...
...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (held by the Chinese Nationalists), the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Rus sia got both at Yalta), the 623 formerly mandated 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 B-29 base Okinawa (now occupied...
...Vietnamese over the French in Indo-China. Red propaganda still shouts support of Malayan terrorists and Filipino Huks. "The Chinese revolution is far from complete," screamed No. 2 Red Liu Shao-chi, in a rousing speech to 40,000 in Peking this week. "China's Taiwan [Formosa] has not yet been liberated...
Because of steadily rising production costs, its producers announced last week, they will cease production next fall after releasing three final subjects (on Morocco, Iran, Formosa). Thereafter, M.O.T. will concentrate its facilities on making films for TV, with occasional documentary subjects for theater release...
...Tinder. All of those advantages, so painfully won, could be lost in a few months after a Korean cease-fire if the West lapsed into complacency. If rearmament slackened off, if the U.S. reduced its efforts to bolster up threatened Asiatic countries, if the West made concessions on Formosa or U.N. membership for Red China-then the Korean War would not have been worth the West's fighting...