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...Formosa Dilemma...
President Truman's decision to send the Seventh Fleet to the defense of Formosa was considered a false move by Reischauer. Truman, he said, "made a mistake in underwriting the Chiang regime in Formosa...
Reischauer questioned whether the stragetic value of keeping the Reds out of Formosa was enough to offset the loss of United States face in Asia caused by supporting Chiang. "Fortunately," he added, "the defense of Formosa is tied in with Korea, and when we, leave Korea we can quietly retreat from Formosa...
...quit acting like an unwanted butler and to deal with the Reds as at least an equal. So far as is known, no one has ever gotten around to suggesting to Dean Acheson that the U.S. itself, if it is really facing the possibility of a fight with Formosa's Nationalists at its side, had better start treating Chiang Kaishek's forces as equals...
...diplomats. Last week, even Britain's urbane Sir Gladwyn Jebb found the drumfire of questions hard to handle. Some he met squarely ("No, I don't think Soviet Russia should be tossed out of the U.N."); some he dodged ("I can't answer questions about Formosa in public...