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Along South China's invasion coast, facing the Nationalist islands of Formosa and Hainan, Communist generals are drilling a million men, assembling thousands of junks and sampans for amphibious assault. How firmly will Nationalist China hold out in her island remnants? Last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder surveyed Formosa's defenses. His report...
...foothills of southern Formosa's terraced mountains, youthful soldiers shout "Shat Sha!" (Kill! Kill!) as they lunge at practice dummies with bayonets. The huge military training camp at Feng-shan echoes with machine-gun chatter, and squads of infantrymen work under live ammunition fire. Fengshan's combat course is modeled after the training system used in the U.S. in World War II, and the camp's officers call it "the cradle of the new Chinese army...
...vote, the House had blocked the Korean aid program three weeks earlier, in perverse and illogical retaliation for the State Department's refusal to extend aid to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made some hasty trips to Capitol Hill, agreed to spend $10.5 million or less on Formosa from some leftover ECA funds in return for funds for South Korea, a U.S. ward perilously adjoining the Soviet puppet regime of North Korea. For two days House Republicans railed against the Administration's "do nothing" policy in Asia before 42 of them...
...Chinese, reported Sulzberger, were asking for almost $3 billion in financial aid and industrial equipment. They also wanted huge supplies of arms, primarily aircraft to use against Formosa...
...dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa, "We don't have the money to run it," he claims. "I just hope the Generalissimo will ship us back the arms and ammunition we need to defend ourselves...