Word: formosae
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Americans didn't know much about Korea before our troops went in there. Then we learned fast. Today few of us know much about Formosa, but we are ready to learn. For it is becoming increasingly obvious that to understand the news from the Far East we must have a clearer picture of this little island which is looming so big in the headlines...
...Historically, Formosa has been used as a springboard for just such military aggression directed against areas to the south. At the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, it played an important part as a staging area and supporting base for the various Japanese invasion convoys. The supporting air forces of Japan's army and navy were based on fields situated along southern Formosa...
...Should Formosa fall into the hands of a hostile power, [it] would again be fully exploited as the means to breach and neutralize our Western Pacific defense system, and mount a war of conquest against the free nations of the Pacific basin...
...Dangerous Fallacy. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument by those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient...
...tung's Chinese Communist government, already beset by problems in Korea and Formosa (see above), discovered it had still more trouble on its hands inside China...