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That area was Southeast Asia; the prescription for it would be like the military and economic aid program which had saved Greece and Turkey. The State Department, though it still refused to take any interest in saving strategically vital Formosa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had finally reached a key decision as to other threatened lands: if the Communists were to be kept from Burma, Siam, Malaya and even Indonesia, they must be stopped now in Indo-China...
...November, is bouncy, bombastic State Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") T. Ferguson. Since Jumping Joe, a jovial hack, was a bit weak on big world issues, Democrats had to reassure themselves that at least he was quite a vote getter. The story goes that when asked what he thought about Formosa, Jumping Joe replied: "Don't worry about Formosa-I carried it by 2,000 votes...
...months after he had conquered the South China mainland, Red General Lin Piao was ready for the overwater jump to Hainan. Unlike Nationalist China's other island, Formosa, which lies 100 deep-water miles from the Red-held coast, Hainan has only a narrow channel (15 miles) separating it from the continental shore. Behind a thin shield of gunboats and planes, Nationalist General Hsueh Yueh had tried to pull together Hainan's army of 160,000, mostly remnants of the south China retreat...
...uses, increasing their threat to Indo-China and other countries touching the South China Sea. However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...
...Formosa, the traveler reported, he had found Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government still riddled with the same old feuds and mutual distrusts. He had found the U.S.-backed government of Southern Korea dictatorial and incompetent; Indonesia, harboring 2,000,000 Chinese, threatened by inflation, pervaded by a sense of hopelessness; the Philippines in economic difficulties, harassed by Red guerrillas...