Word: formosae
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Replied Knowland: "I place an entirely different aspect on this document ... I think it is a key document of the foreign policy of this country which led up to the statement of the President on Jan. 5 that the U.S. would give no further military aid to Formosa, and which . . . led up to the situation where the U.S. Government was prepared both to recognize the Communist regime of China and ultimately to turn Formosa over to them...
KNOWLAND: "At what time and by whom was the Department of State ever advised that [Formosa] was not of strategic importance...
ACHESON : "The State Department was not advised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff or by anyone that Formosa was of no strategic importance ... I think this paragraph [in the propaganda directive] talks about mistaken conceptions of its strategic importance to the U.S. in defense of the Pacific. There had been a great deal of talk . . . that the loss of Formosa would be catastrophic ... indeed, there have been statements to the effect that if it were lost, the defense of the U.S. would be thrown back to our western coast. That, I think, is not a view which has been held...
...Stiffening. Asked Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall: "Has the policy of the State Department gradually stiffened with relation to preventing Formosa from falling into hostile hands...
ACHESON : "One very important change took place ... On the 26th or 27th of June . . . the Seventh Fleet was put in there ... If that had not been done, I believe Formosa would have fallen...