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Regarding MacArthur's policy on Formosa [TIME, Sept. 4]: I cannot help but think of our entering Iceland in 1941 when we were not yet at war. The parallel is exact today in the case of Formosa...
...Here [in Korea], as in Formosa, Indo-China and elsewhere in Asia, the West is defending a lost cause...
...poured planes and bombs to help the infantry, there have been messages of thanks, congratulations and well-dones from the "people ashore." The admiral knows his boys have done a good job. But there is a lot more war, a lot more work ahead. Then, too, there is always Formosa off there over the horizon to the right of the flag bridge...
...Formosa," says Ed Ewen, "is always our first worry. We watch it all the time. If anything starts down there, we will be ready...
...admires Douglas MacArthur and sees eye-to-eye with him on most points of Pacific strategy, including the question of America's Pacific frontier. In their view, the frontier is a barrier from the foggy, smoking Aleutians on the north to the Philippines. Part of this line is Formosa (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR), the key to the Western Pacific. MacArthur, Radford and most Navy men believe that Formosa can and must be denied to the enemy, and therefore cheered President Truman's order to defend it. If Formosa is not held, the U.S. positions in Japan...