Word: formosae
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...that wasn't all. His Navy Secretary got himself in a jam and had to be rebuked. And Douglas MacArthur, speaking his piece on Formosa, got the President so worked up that he ordered the General to withdraw his remarks. It was the kind of week during which a President might well ask himself why he had ever gotten into politics in the first place...
...what Harry Truman intended to accomplish, the order had been given too late. A statement by MacArthur, drawn with the obvious intention of making military sense out of the Administration's strange, vacillating policy on Formosa, had already been sent to press in the U.S. That practical fact had made the statement public property, and within a few hours it had been published across the land...
...your desire," to send a message which could be read at the V.F.W. convention in Chicago this week. It was very much his desire. He sat down and wrote an eloquent statement on the situation which, next to Korea, was most on his mind-the situation of 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...