Word: formosae
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...troops, and a new Korean government "in accordance with U.N. principles." But Paragraph Five was a stunner. It provided for a Four-Power conference of Red China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, immediately after the ceasefire, to settle Far Eastern problems "including, among others, those of Formosa and of representation of China in the United Nations...
...Assist with air and sea forces any island nations which desire help-Formosa, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the British Isles...
...must take these steps immediately: 1) remove the troops from Korea and send them to Japan-they are going to be needed for the greater struggle; 2) prevent any landings of Chinese Reds on Formosa; 3) arm Japan; 4) mobilize America now-immediately; 5) prepare with the utmost haste to defend Europe...
...statement was added saying that more arms would be promptly shipped to Indo-China and the Philippines, while Formosa, on the other hand, would be neutralized behind the Seventh Fleet. Why Formosa was added, State officials now cannot readily explain. The probable answer is that someone thought the Chinese Communists could be neutralized by talking tough out of one corner of the mouth and by speaking softly out of the other. Chiang's offer of 33,000 troops for Korea was turned down on the ground that it might provoke the Chinese Communists to get into the fight. They...
China, gambling on U.S. confusion on the war issue and relying on Washington's refusal to let Chiang Kai-shek strike from Formosa, had sent into the Korean war the vast majority of the well-trained Chinese Communist armies. If U.S. leaders realized they were in a war, they would also realize that China's flank was wide open and the supply line of the Chinese fighting armies was highly vulnerable to air and sea attack...