Word: formosae
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...questions Formosa's Nationalists most urgently want answered are these...
...Communist strength of Western Europe was building up dramatically, thanks to EGA and MAP (Military Assistance Program). The efforts of the European and U.S. Communist Parties to sabotage this buildup had failed. It was the Kremlin's turn to move, and the move was obvious and long-prepared-Formosa...
...State Department and Defense Department, long blind to the changes in Asia, and unwilling in any case to worry about them, had decided that Formosa, too, was "strategically unrewarding." And the U.S. had obligingly made public this decision, thus undermining the Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...
Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
Louis Johnson and Republican Foreign Affairs Advisor John Foster Dulles visited Tokyo. Douglas MacArthur, who had never wavered in the opinion that Formosa must be defended, armed them with eloquent and specific facts to be taken back to Washington. The Kremlin, which knew MacArthur's position and his ability to make compelling sense of it, correctly divined that Formosa policy was going to be reconsidered in Washington; better be careful...