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...Joint Chiefs do not regard Formosa of prime strategic importance to the U.S. as a military base. They believe that Japan, the Philippines and particularly Okinawa, with their war-built airfields, are better for that. But in friendly hands, Formosa could be a valuable irritant against the Communist-held mainland, if the U.S. showed its determination to hold...
...recent visit to Japan by Army Under Secretary Tracy Voorhees and Lieut. General Al Gruenther turned the trick. They reported to the Joint Chiefs, as MacArthur had urged, that it simply made no sense to turn Formosa over to the Communists by default...
...would require no U.S. expeditionary force to hold Formosa, the Joint Chiefs were assured. The Chinese themselves have enough arms & men to hold the fort: 250 planes and twelve well-equipped divisions (although lacking in some such items as tank ammunition) under V.M.I.-trained General...
Some pilots on Formosa have already flown their planes across Formosa Strait and surrendered to the Communists; the Nationalist commanders had to consider which pilots they could trust with gasoline. But the simple act of indicating a U.S. interest in saving Formosa could be expected to buck up Chinese fighting spirit immeasurably...
...Recognition would jeopardize any U.S. moves in Formosa. So ran the debate. Last week another influential voice joined the discussion. The Republican's top foreign-policy strategist, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, returned to Washington, thinned down (by 30 Ibs.) but recovered from his operation. His answer to recognition was neither yes nor no. It was not yet. Said Michigan's Vandenberg: Communist China must first demonstrate its "competent control [and] its willingness to observe the rules of international law. In neither respect does it now qualify for recognition...