Word: formosae
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Sept. 23, 1949-The Joint Chiefs of Staff considered sending a military mission to Formosa. Decision: no mission...
...J.C.S. ruled against trying to save Formosa from the Communists. Reason: strategically the U.S. could do without Formosa. They were unanimous...
...Chiang Kaishek, beaten off the mainland, arrived on Formosa to set up his Nationalist government. J.C.S. began a re-examination of its policy...
From October 1948 until the Korean invasion on June 25, 1950, Dean Acheson testified, the U.S. had "one policy, and one policy only" in regard to Formosa. "That policy was as follows: 1) first of all, it was understood and agreed that Formosa had strategic importance so far as the U.S. was concerned; 2) that strategic importance related to keeping Formosa out of the hands of a [hostile] power and did not concern occupying or using Formosa by the U.S.; 3) in the existing condition and strength of the armed forces of the U.S., it was not possible to commit...
...J.C.S. reversed its stand. This time it recommended that an attempt be made to keep Formosa from the Communists. It proposed that a small military mission, possibly 20 officers, be sent. General Douglas MacArthur and Army Under Secretary Tracy Voorhees, who had recently returned from a trip to MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters, had helped convince J.C.S. that the island should be saved...