Word: formosae
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...said. But he left no doubt that the two top men in Harry Truman's Cabinet-he and Dean Acheson-had differed sharply. Military policy, said Johnson, was "being influenced by the State Department prior to a simon-pure decision by Defense." Their chief differences were over Formosa. "The Defense Department battled day in & day out to keep Formosa out of hostile hands...
...never] agreed with the State Department's pessimistic views concerning the future of Formosa...
...Once Chiang had been driven from the mainland, State had despaired of saving the Nationalists, had placidly awaited the fall of Formosa (and Chiang). Chiang, they obviously felt, was not a man the U.S. should be seen with...
...Acheson's exclusion of Formosa and Korea from the U.S. defense perimeter in January 1950 had undoubtedly reassured the Communists in their planning...
...Prayed Considerable." The most trenchant questioning came not from the disorganized Republicans but from two anti-Administration Democrats. Georgia's Walter George demanded why it was, when U.S. policy was not to allow Formosa to fall into hostile hands, that the U.S. "came very near doing it" when it voted for the U.N. cease-fire offer in January. That cease-fire offer proposed that the fate of Formosa be discussed by a body which would include four specified nations-Russia, Communist China, Britain and the U.S.-a peculiar foursome in which only the U.S. was at all willing...