Word: formosae
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...first beat was in our January 2 issue when TIME'S editors reported that 1) the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making a 180° turn in their thinking, had decided to dispatch a military mission to Formosa, and 2) that President Truman had ordered his Cabinet officers to produce a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy for a meeting of the National Security Council the following week, at which he would preside...
Then, in our January 9 issue, the editors again scored a beat when they told what had happened at this meeting, including Harry Truman's thumbs down on the J.C.S. proposal for Formosa, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson's new program for Asia, point by point...
TIME'S scoops were due to nothing less than oldfashioned, door-bell-ring-ing reporting. On the Friday before Christmas, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley was asked by the editors to investigate a report that the Joint Chiefs of Staff might have reversed their stand on Formosa...
Meanwhile, Sherrod, pounding his beat, picked up enough information to satisfy himself that the J.C.S. had done an about-face on Formosa. From his own news sources, Shepley found out the details of President Truman's meeting with the Cabinet and the plans for the forthcoming Security Council session...
Nearly all the Republicans, even if they were inclined to sympathize with the Administration policy on Formosa, assailed the President for not consulting Congress before announcing his decision. Such a step, they said, sabotaged efforts to maintain a bi-partisan foreign policy. Secretary of State Acheson explained that Truman's haste was necessary to clarify this country's position on Formosa before the eyes of the world. Sound as the President's stand is, however, he would have been politically wise to discuss it with Congressional foreign relation leaders before making it public...