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Wrong Airport. But what about MacArthur and what about Formosa? The question flapped along like the albatross as the Independence stuck her blue nose into the thick haze over Washington the next morning, passed over the fog-shrouded National Airport and landed instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended...
...connection with the Big Five, the U.S. must sooner or later recognize that Chiang's Formosa is not a major power. The carrier Communist China is allowed into the U.N., the more favorable are that body's chances for success, particularly in dealing with the difficult situations in Formosa and Korea. The occupation, rehabilitation, and administration of Korea will be a major test, and the whole value of the Korean expedition in the eyes of Asia will depend on how well the U.N. can handle the ambitious Syngman Rhee and the equally ambitious General MacArthur. The disposition of Formosa...
...prepared for the last, 2,300-mile leg of his journey to Wake Island, an odd atmosphere of expectancy and something very like tension settled over the expedition. Truman and MacArthur-who had never set eyes on each other, and who had clashed publicly over U.S. policy in Formosa (TIME, Sept. 4)-seemed, at the moment, like the sovereign rulers of separate states, approaching a neutral field with panoplied retainers to make talk and watch each other's eyes...
...comments of the conferees, Truman confined the talk to subjects on which he and MacArthur already agreed-Korea, the Philippines, stabilizing the Far East. Particularly, the President wanted to hear the general's opinions on rebuilding Korea. According to one man in the room, the President referred to Formosa only by saying-as if in passing-that "we are in agreement...
...return trip to Formosa Osborne found that its governor, K. C. Wu, who was the subject of TIME'S Aug. 7 cover story, had an oversupply of that issue, thanks to interested TIME readers from all over the world. Many of the 200 readers who wrote to him also expressed their surprise and gratification at the strength of the anti-Communist forces on Formosa...