Word: formosae
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...enemy by giving him everything he wants. In this way we have been able to keep the leaders in Moscow perpetually off balance. Imagine their surprise and consternation when we turned China over to the Communists, and then, by a crafty stratagem, kept the Chinese Nationalists neutralized on Formosa while engaging these same Communists in armed combat. Small wonder they are baffled...
...Book. Two other incidents closed, or were supposed to close, the book on Chiang Kaishek. In December 1940 the Joint Chiefs of Staff tentatively decided to send a military mission to Chiang's transplanted government on Formosa. The Joint Chiefs thus acknowledged Formosa's strategic importance; Acheson overrode them...
...weeks later, before the National Press Club, Acheson drew the U.S. defense line in the Pacific from AIaska to the Philippines, and declared: "So far as the military security of other areas in the Pacific [e.g., Formosa, Korea] is concerned it must be clear that no person can guarantee those areas against military attack." That statement signified the great U.S. write-off of Asia...
...said 76-year-old Herbert Hoover in a radio speech to the nation, should, in effect, be prepared to abandon Asia and Europe to Communism, and to build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of civilization." It should cut its world commitments down to a cordon of ocean bases-Formosa, the Philippines and Japan in the Pacific, and Britain, "if she wishes to cooperate," in the Atlantic...
...Appeasement. Mr. Hoover was convinced that the U.S. should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...