Word: formosae
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...Korea by asking for an armistice and paying the Communist price. The lowest price that the U.N. could get for an armistice would be something like this: 1) Korea under a U.N. occupation without U.S. or Chinese troops; 2) admission of Communist China to U.N.; and 3) abandonment of Formosa to the Chinese Communists. This price was higher than it seemed. Reason: the moral defeat involved would prove to Asiatic and European nations that the U.S. and the U.N. could not make good on their promises of protection against Red aggression. This would deepen the defeatist tendencies of anti-Communists...
...said, has instigated the war in Korea to cover up its invasion of Formosa and to further "its fanatical design of dominating Asia and the world." Screamed Wu: "Who has shattered security in the Pacific? Have Chinese armed forces invaded Hawaii, or have U.S. armed forces invaded . . . Korea and Formosa? . . . The real intention of the U.S., as MacArthur has confessed, is ... to dominate every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore...
...Chinese people, he said, have arisen. "The Chinese people, who victoriously overthrew the rule on China's mainland of Japanese imperialism, and of American imperialism and its lackey Chiang Kaishek, will certainly succeed in driving out the United States aggressors and recover Taiwan [Formosa] and all other territories that belong to China ... As a result of the victories of the great Socialist October Revolution of the Soviet Union, of the anti-Fascist second World War, and of the great revolution of the Chinese people, all the oppressed nations and people of the East have awakened and organized themselves...
Declaring that China's Communist government is the true government, Joseph R. Cataldo '53, acting chairman of the H.Y.P., felt that Peiping should be granted a seat in the United Nations. He also stated that the U.N. should settle the Formosa question as soon as the Chinese Communists had been seated. Although this would be a concession, he stated that the United States should do anything necessary to preserve peace...
Opinion on the Korean crisis varies. Some would favor "giving up the moral issue involved in Korea, giving up even nominal control in Formosa if it can prevent an all out war with the Chinese communists...