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Better than most he knew the history of the Administration's bewildering policy there: its brushoff of Formosa last January as strategically not worth the risk; its apparently forthright decision on June 27 to defend it; Dean Acheson's spurning, after that, of any alliance with Chiang...
Kaishek; the President's affront to Chiang through his order "neutralizing" Formosa; MacArthur's own flying visit to Formosa, and the Administration's alarm that this would be construed as U.S. acceptance of Chiang...
MacArthur had a single, paramount conviction; no matter what, Formosa had to be denied to the enemy-an end which the Administration was also trying to achieve. His statement was a complete military justification of that policy, packed with compelling military logic. In the hands of a hostile power, he wrote, "Formosa would be an unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located" to checkmate the U.S. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument of those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus...
...Statement? On Thursday last week the Chicago Sun-Times directed its Washington correspondent to ask the State Department if it would change the hour of the Monday release date on.Mac-Arthur's statement. State was taken aback. It did not know that MacArthur had made any statement on Formosa or anything else. Acheson telephoned the White House, which knew nothing about 'it either. Neither, as it turned out, did the Department of Defense. Washington officialdom went into a flap, trying to get hold of the text. But it was not until Saturday morning, by which time the Associated...
...Withdraw." Acheson argued: a statement on U.S. policy in the Pacific was beyond MacArthur's authority, and furthermore MacArthur was full of hot air. The U.S. had not held Formosa during World War II, Acheson argued,* and the U.S. had not been forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along...