Word: formosae
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...State Department issued 456 copies of a secret document to its diplomatic missions abroad. Its message: 1) minimize the possible fall of Formosa to the Communists, 2) emphasize that "Formosa has no special military significance...
...President Truman presided at a meeting of the National Security Council. General Omar Bradley, representing the J.C.S. in its new stand, argued for a military mission to Formosa. Secretary Acheson opposed him, decisively defeated the proposal. Truman ruled for Acheson...
...conference: "The United States [has no] intention of utilizing its armed forces to interfere in the present [Formosan] situation. The U.S. Government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China . . . will not provide military aid or advice to Chinese forces on Formosa. In the view of the U.S. Government, the resources on Formosa are adequate to enable them to obtain the items which they might consider necessary for the defense of the island." EGA help would continue...
...Secretary Acheson told a press conference: "There has been a great deal of amateur military strategy indulged in in regard to this matter of Formosa . . . We are not going to get involved militarily in any way on the island of Formosa. So far as I know, no responsible person in the Government, no military man has ever believed that we should involve our forces in the island . . . We gave vast amounts of military equipment to that government. . . It is not that they lack rifles or ammunition ... or that they cannot purchase what they need . . . The trouble lies elsewhere...
...Acheson, in a speech to the National Press Club, said that the U.S. "defensive perimeter runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus ... to the Philippine Islands." Not included: Formosa...