Word: formosae
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Within a month after the President's announcement neutralizing Formosa, he had flown there to call on Chiang Kai-shek and had been pictured kissing the hand of Madame Chiang Kaishek; he made numerous statements to visitors of the course he deemed necessary in Asia, and he fired off his famed letter to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, declaring Formosa essential to U.S. defense...
...MacArthur's private assurance to Truman that the Chinese Communists would not come into Korea). Harry Truman returned triumphantly to proclaim that he and his general had settled their differences-only to have a Tokyo "informed source" announce that Supreme Commander MacArthur "holds unalterably to the view that Formosa should not be allowed to fall into the hands of a potential enemy...
...Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently criticize U.S. involvement in either Korea or Europe), some changes had to be made fast. Out from Martin's office went the new word: forget impeachment talk for the time being, stop talking about the Formosa question, and concentrate on a demand that MacArthur come back and report his views to Congress-in a joint session, nothing less...
...luck was against it. On the day of the big MacArthur headlines, another story made an embarrassing contrast: Britain had "suggested" to the State Department that Communist China should be allowed to sit in on negotiations of a Japanese treaty (with the Nationalists barred, of course), and that Formosa should eventually be given to the Chinese Reds...
...repel, and if possible, end the aggression in Korea with all the force it can safely commit to that action." Harry Truman offered no more. He sent out his press secretary to tell newsmen that U.S. policy is still the same; specifically, it still includes the "neutralization" of Formosa, which means that the U.S. Seventh Fleet keeps Mao from invading Formosa and keeps Chiang from raiding the mainland or resuming his coastal blockade...