Word: formosae
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...Formosa today is a shabby monument to the policy of "containing Communism" by supporting anybody who opposes it. These several hundred thousand troops living partially on U. S. doles are a sad commentary on the shortsightedness of American diplomacy, which backed the politics of Chiang Kai-Shek against the reforms of the Mao-Tse Tung...
...Formosa, where the Chinese Nationalists maintain the strongest Asian anti-Communist army (500,000 men) and which a vacillating U.S. policy may or may not decide to hold against Communist attack; the Philippines, whose government and army are dangerously inefficient and plagued with corruption; and Indonesia, whose government has fought Communism at home, but is inexperienced and saddled with staggering administrative problems...
Both Reischauer and Fairbank supported the United States' decision to halt the North Korean invasion, but were equally critical of President Truman's move to protect Formosa with the Seventh Fleet...
Information Service has come to life, enthusiastically launching a new effort to communicate with the common folk of Formosa in their own idiom...
...friend and ally. But the fact is that no meaningful change in the U.S. Government's attitude toward the recognized government of Nationalist China has been made apparent in Taipei. I can also report that no one in Taipei is aware of any substantial "Question of Formosa," except the problem created and sustained by our Government's apparent determination to eliminate the Chinese Nationalists from Asia...