Word: formosae
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...spite of the implications of these five propositions, there is no serious move in Washington to reverse the December Formosa decision. Any effort to revive the issue gets lost in the old argument about whether the U.S. can cooperate with Chiang Kaishek. Chiang said last week that he would be willing to see General MacArthur assume responsibility for the integrity of Formosa. If the U.S. through MacArthur did assume responsibility, such questions as Chiang's personality would recede into proper perspective. Formosa could then be weighed in terms of future peril to the free world rather than in terms...
...million currency stabilization fund, which would release their own gold for economic development, and another $20 million, worth of economic assistance up to June 30, when the present ECA program ends. After that, Governor Wu has a simple formula: $10 million a month in American economic aid until Formosa can get on its feet...
...Nationalists on Formosa are also renewing their hope of military aid. Chiang Kai-shek's formula: "The U.S. should match the forms of aid given to the Communists by Soviet Russia. We do not expect more than what the Soviet is giving." This would imply everything up to jet planes manned by American pilots, since the Russians now provide them for the Chinese Communists...
...government's failures on the mainland, nor denies that much past aid was dissipated in those disasters. Chiang suggests a military EGA, in effect an effort similar to that directed by U.S. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet in Greece. Who would direct such an undertaking in Formosa? The Generalissimo would consider it "reasonable" for General MacArthur, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, to assume responsibility for Formosa's integrity pending the signing of a Japanese peace treaty. But Chiang insists that there be no infringement of China's sovereignty or administrative integrity. Such a move...
...Doubt. It seems clear that the defenders of Formosa, fighting a 5,000,000-man army drawn from the cheap and endless manpower of China's mainland, are almost hopelessly doomed by sheer numbers if the Reds are ready to waste Chinese lives freely, as no doubt they are. Further, remembering the past, I think it is still easy to wonder whether or not the Nationalist high command seriously wants to stage a last-ditch fight to save Formosa...