Word: formosae
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...this perilous situation, a familiar voice sounded around the world last week with calculated bluntness. Said Douglas MacArthur: turn Chiang Kai-shek's forces on Formosa loose to open a second front on China's mainland. In a letter to Republican Minority Leader Joe Martin, MacArthur wrote bitterly: "My views and recommendations have been submitted to Washington in most complete detail. It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while...
...long as the United Nations does not withdraw its shameless action of branding our country as an aggressor, and so long as the American aggressor and his accomplices block . . . the peaceful settlement of the Korean issue and the withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Formosa .... the people of China must raise their sense of vigilance by doubling their effort for the sacred struggle . . . until . . . the complete driving out of all aggressors ... is accomplished...
Fearing a profitless stalemate, he proposed then the only course which seemed logical to him: that the opposing generals meet in the field and arrange a ceasefire. He would put aside such "extraneous matters" as Formosa and Red China's claim to a seat in U.N., leave fundamental "political" questions to the diplomats. "I stand ready at any time to confer in the field with the commander in chief of the enemy forces in an earnest effort [to end] further bloodshed...
...There should be no insuperable difficulty arriving at decisions on the Korean problem if the issues are resolved on their own merits, without being burdened by extraneous matters not directly related to Korea, such as Formosa and China's seat in the United Nations...
MacArthur qualified his armistice proposal by saying that peace negotiations should not be burdened with "extraneous matters" such as Formosa and the seating of Red China in the U.N. Established U.N. policy, however, calls for discussion of these two important questions as soon as a cause fire agreement has been reached. If the Chinese should refuse to agree on a truce, MacArthur intimated that the U.N. might drop its current policy of confining the war to Korea, and authorize military action against the Chinese mainland. This is not U.N. policy, and State Department officials quickly indicated that this...