Word: formosae
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...Military aid for the uneasy Philippines, facing the rising specter of Chinese Communism to the north and west, and threatened by the possible Communist occupation of Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...
...turned his last careful phrase, Harry Truman allowed little time for rebuttal. Here, at last, was a package he could take to a restive Congress. Quickly he made his decision: he would side with Dean Acheson, overrule the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There would be no military mission to Formosa...
Goodbye to Formosa. Later the Pentagon was still wondering how Acheson had done it. The Joint Chiefs, after all, were supposed to be the guardians of military strategy and the assessors of risk. "I predict," said one conferee drearily, "that the Communists will have Formosa within six months...
...Formosa had been abandoned, and with it, one chance for the U.S. to show decisively that it meant to be resolute in containing Communism in Asia. But for better or for worse, the U.S. did have the beginnings of a foreign policy in Asia, and as even the defeated J.C.S. would have to admit, that was progress...
...face of vocal opposition from a bloc of Republicans led by Senators William F. Knowland and Robert A. Taft, President Truman declared Thursday that the Untied States would send neither naval forces nor troops to Formosa to protect it against invasion by the Chinese Communists...