Word: formosae
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Only once by name, with passing scorn for "foolish adventures," did Dean Acheson in his Press Club speech mention Formosa. But the word had hissed like a hot coal on ice earlier in the week when he met for five hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for four hours next day with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and it steamed all week in the speeches of a small but angry group of Republican critics...
...Congress old Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tried loyally to answer a five-hour Republican barrage, but in doing it, he was forced to double back on his own statement of seven days before that it would be "wise" to defend Formosa. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry, the party's on-tap isolationist spokesman, said that Britain's recognition of Red Peking afforded "even more compelling reasons for cutting this [ECA] spending to support British socialism...
There was one voice, sadder in its tone and firmer in its faith than all the others, which spoke out on Formosa this week in the eloquence of personal tragedy. Madame Chiang Kaishek, wife of the beleaguered leader of anti-Communist China, sat before a microphone in her brother-in-law's New York home to say her farewell to the U.S. before leaving to rejoin her husband on Formosa. Said...
When they finally got down to business, friend McNeil explained to friend Cheng that Britain would maintain de facto contact with the Nationalists in Formosa. Cheng and his staff would have three months to vacate the stately embassy in London's Portland Place before the Communists moved in. Then, if they needed sanctuary, the Nationalist representatives might stay on as exiles in Britain...
...last ambassadorial duty to perform. On orders from Formosa, he gave ?20 toward medical expenses for ailing Lien-ho, the giant panda presented to the London Zoo in 1946 by Nationalist China as a token of friendship...