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...Asia Writer Dwight Martin is now standing by for possible reassignment to the Far East. As a TIME correspondent in Shanghai, Formosa and Hong Kong in 1948-49, he absorbed much of the background for the current crisis...
...well between Douglas MacArthur, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman, and had been all along. So said they all last week. Anybody who said differently, declared General MacArthur, was guilty of "sly insinuations, brash speculations and bold misstatements." MacArthur had not overstepped his military bounds by his trip to Formosa; he was "a soldier," said Harriman, "and he will carry out any orders that the President gives him." The President, for his part, said he was satisfied with MacArthur...
What, then, was all the fuss about? The fact seemed to be that in general the denials told the truth, but not the whole truth. Yes, the White House knew that General MacArthur had planned a trip to Formosa, but was surprised and embarrassed by the timing of it. Yes, MacArthur discussed only military matters with Chiang Kaishek, but so dramatic a trip to so controversial a spot had inevitable political consequences, too. All of the hullaballoo indicated the touchiness of the Formosa decision: to "neutralize" the island and still avoid a war with Communist China. Both MacArthur...
...foreign policy (e.g., U.N., the Marshall Plan), the Republicans had joined in genuine bipartisanship, said the statement. In all that was bad, the Republicans had not been consulted. The Administration, they said, had given the Kremlin a "green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa...
MacArthur called his one-day visit to Formosa "a short reconnaissance of the potential of its defense against possible attack." Acting under Washington's order to guard the island against Communist invasion, he promised "effective coordination between American forces under my command and those of the Chinese government." As for Chiang's offer to send Nationalist troops to Korea, MacArthur replied that they were more needed in Formosa's defense...