Word: formosae
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...bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea. The Chinese met the U.N. offensive with a heavy counterattack (see WAR IN ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations with the Chinese, and do what...
Baker arrived in Formosa, where TIME and LIFE have the largest circulations of any American magazines, on Double Tenth (October 10), China's Fourth of July, commemorating the end of the Manchu dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. That afternoon he took in his favorite spectator sport, a baseball game played before some 70,000 Formosan fans, including ex-head-hunting aborigines down from the hills for the occasion...
Meanwhile, the Red Chinese delegation to the U.N. was still making its leisurely way toward Lake Success, by way of Moscow. By terms which the Chinese Reds had made crystal clear, they were going to Lake Success to discuss only two matters: their charges of U.S. aggression in Formosa, and their charges of U.S. aggression in Korea...
Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had little to lose in Korea. If his luck continued to hold (i.e., if Washington kept on appeasing him), he might come out of the Lake Success meeting with some rich prizes: maybe Formosa, maybe admission...
Both Russia and the U.S. took steps to make sure that the U.N. would do nothing but mark time until the delegation from Red China arrived. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles persuaded the Political & Security Committee to postpone indefinitely its scheduled debate on the future status of Formosa. In the Security Council, Russia's Jacob Malik threatened to use his veto power if the Council were asked to vote on a resolution proposed a week earlier by the U.S. and five other powers. Although the resolution was intended primarily to quiet Chinese Communist suspicions of U.N. aims in Korea...