Word: formosae
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...G.O.P. members of the Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 21) blaming Administration "blunders" for the U.S.'s hasty postwar demobilization, for "failing to recognize the true aims and methods" of Soviet Russia, for giving the Kremlin "a green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa." Snapped Democrat Tom Connally: "A document of complaint and quarrelsomeness." Added Connecticut's Brien McMahon: "These masters of hindsight seek to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divorce themselves from our defeats . . . The record shows that more than one-half of the Republican...
Indo-China is one of the five critical places on earth that are most vulnerable to Communist attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of Burma, Siam and Indonesia could probably not long resist Communist pressure, and the Red tide would sweep to the borders of India. Indo-China may hold the difference between limited success and total disaster of U.S. policy and U.S. hopes in Asia...
Britain and the U.S. are having a serious difference over Formosa. Last week Clement Attlee brought it right into the open. In a public statement, the Prime Minister drew a careful line between U.N. action in Korea, which Britain supports, and U.S. action in Formosa, which Britain opposes. Added Attlee, obviously for the ears of China's Communist regime: "I think that is understood in China...
...assured its readers that he alone would be to blame if a general war broke out in Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general's recent visit to Formosa as "flatfooted diplomacy." The outcry muffled the quieter misgivings, mostly among Conservatives, about the wisdom of the government's China policy...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington the U.S. will continue to reject the British viewpoint. But the U.S. itself, unless it changes its own line again, will defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore, the State Department tacitly encouraged Whitehall's recognition of Red China...