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...this week, staff writer Dwight Martin, who was a TIME correspondent in Shanghai, Formosa and Hong Kong in 1948-49, has moved up to the Seoul front. And Hugh Moffett, National Affairs editor of LIFE and a former TIME Inc. Chicago bureau head, is on his way to take over Gibney's job as Tokyo bureau chief...
...Russia the main "obstacle to peace," he used remarkably kid-gloved language, e.g.: "The use by Soviet leaders of the international Communist movement . . . has been a great source of trouble in the world." Acheson also announced that the U.S. would ask the Assembly to decide the vital issue of Formosa, and that all "concerned and interested parties" should be invited to have their say. This obviously included the Chinese Communists, and sounded like the next-worst thing to U.S. recognition of Red China...
...steering committee also put on the agenda, without protest from Russia, Dean Acheson's proposals for strengthening the role of the Assembly( see above). Then it passed, without protest from the U.S., a Russian proposal to debate "American aggression" against China by its intervention on Formosa...
Both Fairbank and Schwartz took issue against the recent MacArthur letter on Formosa. Fairbank asserted that the MacArthur statements overrates the Far East in our global policy. He also felt that the letter was politically in-expedient, in so far as it "went against our argument in Asia that we had no designs on Formosa...
...agreed that an overt act in Formosa would be unwise because it could lead to a war with China...