Word: formosae
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...action. To get this proposal accepted required only a simple majority. It got far more than that, carrying by 61 to 34. Next came an amendment by Cambodia, Ceylon and Indonesia, which in effect urged the admission to the U.N. of two Chinas-the Red mainland and Nationalist Formosa. It was voted down 45-30, with 28 abstentions...
...attempt to prove his theory about socialism, he stated that "Russian czarism was actually a form of socialism." When a disenchanted questioner asked if the strong central control in Formosa and Spain did not provide fine spawning grounds for Communists, he quickly replied, "they have a parliamentary form of government." An unheard voice recalled that "Russia also has a parliament...
...Korean war and Viet Nam, to say nothing about Red Chinese brutality in Tibet and on its Indian border, Zorin cried that the U.S. was responsible for "keeping China and the people of China from their rightful seat in the U.N.'' He vilified the Nationalists on Formosa as "political outcasts" and "people who represent nobody." Sneered Zorin: "Take away the American forces on Taiwan [Formosa], put an end to the U.S. occupation of the island, and the clique of Chiang Kai-shek will not stay there another day. It will be wiped away by the hurricane...
...could be driven on its bed, but in Manchuria rampaging rivers drowned coal mines and steel mills in Anshan and Mukden. Yet bad weather, which Li Fu-chun and Peking's other leaders used as an excuse, was far from the whole explanation of China's woes. Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have much the same weather. But though Hong Kong crops dropped by 8% and Formosa's by 13%, Kwangtung's agricultural output declined a full 30%. Communist mismanagement accounts
...failed to pay either their regular budget charges or for any of the U.N. special operations. Total delinquency of the Africans is $842,000, of the Latins, $6,600,000. Also still outstanding is $6,274,483 due on the regular budget from Nationalist China; although they command only Formosa, the Nationalists still represent all China in the U.N., are thus assessed for the whole country...