Word: formosae
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...last week there were signs of change in the Administration's attitude. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett announced that arms aid for Formosa now had equal priority with arms for Europe. The U.S. has already shipped $10 million worth of ammunition to Formosa. After the 116-man mission which left last week has reported on Chiang's needs in equipment and the U.S. starts shipping it, the mission will be built up to about 600 men. But just in case anyone might interpret this as a sign that the Administration had really been shaken into doing something...
...Canada today has only one battalion in the field and 6,000 men en route . . . If it had not been for the decisive action of the United States . . . Korea would now be under Communist control and it is quite feasible that Communist forces would have since invaded Formosa or even Japan...
...victory over the North Koreans by Thanksgiving and planned to have the Eighth Army back in Japan by Christmas. He said that he would be able to release the seasoned 2nd Division for transfer to Europe by January. ¶The President and the general came to an understanding on Formosa, the issue which had caused all the fuss. The President explained that he and the general disagreed only on method-the President had no intention of letting Formosa fall into Chinese Communist hands, but he planned to achieve his objective by neutralizing the island with the Seventh Fleet, while MacArthur...
...after MacArthur's address, the Truman Administration attached a footnote to its Pacific program. The Defense Department announced that it would send a military assistance advisory group, about 100 officers strong, to the Chinese Government on Formosa. Chief of the mission:Major General William C. Chase, a veteran of World War II Pacific campaigns. Washington made it clear that Formosa would not get U.S. aid in training and operation of its armed forces, as Greece and Turkey do. Chase's men will be mostly limited to a study of what the Nationalists need in equipment...
...Britain's most proud and powerful companies in the China trade. Sometime in the late 19th Century it came to dominate Yangtze River shipping; it also operated a first-class fleet of ships up & down the China coast. When the Japanese in 1895 demanded the cession of Formosa, after defeating China in war, the influential taipans of Butterfield & Swire sent a haughty admonition to His Majesty's Minister in Peking: the Japanese, they insisted, must not be permitted to encroach on British trading privileges...