Word: formosae
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...because, for one thing, life is cheap in China; a naval blockade would involve the U.S. with Russian ships, would probably "leak like a sieve," and would not shut off the main Chinese supplies, coming by land from Russia; the value of Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa in any expedition against the Reds is negligible. "I do not believe . . . the result would be commensurate with the effort that we would have to make...
...Administration had ever toyed with the idea of appeasement, it had been forced to a public renunciation. Red China would not be allowed "to shoot its way into the United Nations," said Secretary of Defense Marshall. The Administration would "never yield" Formosa to Communist hands...
...sold war materials to the Communist nations. Reading the signs, the British government belatedly toughened up in its dealings with the Communist Chinese (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed (as did France) to support an economic blockade of mainland China in the U.N., and announced that it would not insist that Formosa be turned over to Red China-at least not until the Korean fighting ended...
...Suspended its policy of promising Formosa to the Chinese Reds. Said Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison: "It would be premature to discuss the future of Formosa so long as operations continue in Korea...
...Truman Administration is unequivocally opposed to any Korean settlement which would give Formosa and United Nations membership to Communist China. "It will oppose any settlement . . . which would reward the aggressor in any manner whatsoever, and it will oppose the attempt of any nation or regime to shoot its way into the United Nations...