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...Formosa: "The issue should be settled by peaceful means to safeguard the interests of the people of Formosa . . . Consideration by the United Nations will contribute to these ends...
When Douglas MacArthur went to Formosa in August, the dismay of the U.S. State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...
Peking admits that 400,000 armed "bandits" (i.e., Nationalist or other anti-Communist guerrillas) are still fighting the Red rule. Formosa's Nationalists claim that the armed resisters number well above a million. But this popular force is not yet effectively organized. The U.S. shows no present intention of encouraging or using the anti-Communists of Formosa or the mainland to undermine Mao in his own backyard. This in spite of estimates that, with a little help from outside, the anti-Communist Chinese could pin down half the Chinese Red army...
...Advancing!" Like many a dictator before him, Mao tries to divert the minds of his people from his unkept promises by emphasizing "foreign encirclement." His press keeps up a din for the conquest of Formosa and Tibet...
...Total U.S. military and civilian government employees now in Formosa...