Word: formosae
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Underneath this sonorous note, which covered another discord in the U.S.-British voice, was Britain's known willingness, when the talks began, to give Formosa to the Communists in a peace settlement-an attitude that many Americans labeled appeasement, no matter what protestations the communiqué made. The U.S. insisted that it would not be blackmailed by Mao into sacrificing Chiang Kai-shek for what it was sure could only be a temporary peace in the Far East. Attlee reluctantly accepted this point of view...
Time to Be Primitive. Douglas wanted the U.S. to accept Chiang Kai-shek's offer to send 33,000 soldiers of his Formosa army to Korea. Quoting an old soldiers' saying, Douglas added: "'He's an s.o.b., but he's our s.o.b.' Sometimes things get as primitive as that and if you wait until you have perfect allies . . . you will be very lonely...
...Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any more concessions to Communism...
...whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea and Formosa...
...nothing more was heard of the other three. One day 100 cold and famished Chinese came out of the hills and surrendered. Some said they were former Nationalist soldiers who had been dragooned into the Red army, and that they now wanted to join Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...