Word: formosae
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...Besides Formosa, Nationalist China has another beleaguered island redoubt. Oyster-shaped, about twice the size of New Jersey, with 3,000,000 inhabitants, Hainan Island lies in the South China Sea, only 15 miles from the Red mainland. The Japanese used it as a training ground and springboard for their conquest of Indo-China, Malaya and Singapore. From Hainan last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder reported...
...will win the long run battle in China if we do not antagonize the Chinese people by blunders like seizing Formosa," Edwin O. Reischauer Ph.D. '39, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, told the 28th annual session of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters yesterday afternoon in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater...
Connally's yielding and Acheson's scorn neither relieved nor silenced the Republicans. Ohio's Robert Taft read a 1,500-word statement to the Senate, instead of talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our Navy makes it clear that ships carrying troops will not be allowed to cross . . . Formosa is a place where a small amount of aid, and at very small cost, can prevent the further spread of Communism ..." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges cried out: "Are we men in Europe...
...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
...widespread was the public criticism of Administration policy on Formosa? The New York Times asked its correspondents across the U.S. to find out. Their conclusion: a general feeling that the Administration's "decision against military aid to Formosa was a hard choice, but probably the best...