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Last July the Tucker was one of the ships stationed in the Formosa Strait to guard President Eisenhower's way. We could see Quemoy and hear in the distance the muted thunder of the 88,000-gun salute. In January we were part of the special striking force assembled and deployed from Okinawa on New Year's Day. On Easter day we watched and waited in readiness on the South China...
Investigating, U.S. military attaches found the boxes labeled, as claimed, with the clasped-hands symbol but reported that the weapons were mostly non-U.S. At a press conference in Rangoon, Burmese Premier U Nu would not relent. "Where do the arms come from? From Formosa," he declared. "Where does Formosa get her arms? From the U.S. Only one word from America will stop Formosa from supplying arms to the Kuomintang...
Their odyssey began back in 1949, when crusty old General Li Mi, retreating as the Red Chinese armies advanced into Yunnan province, led some 10,000 of his men across the border to safety in Burma. General Li soon arranged to have supplies (often U.S.-made) flown in from Formosa, launched harassing raids on the Red Chinese across the border. Unfortunately, his troops were equally willing to take on the Burmese, who complained to the U.N. Under pressure, the Nationalist government suspended its aid, and in 1953-54 General Li and some 7,000 guerrillas were flown out to safety...
Fortnight ago 5,000 Burmese troops attacked and overran the Nationalist headquarters at Mongpa-Liao. Caught between the Burmese and the Chinese Communist border guards, the Nationalists poured over the neighboring borders of Laos and Thailand. Last week Bangkok proposed to evacuate them to Formosa. It was the end for the last Nationalist Chinese fighting force on the mainland of Asia...
...Ever since 1951, Red China's admission to the U.N. has been stopped by a General Assembly vote in favor of a moratorium on any discussion of whether the mainland Communists or the Formosa Nationalists properly represent the state and people of China. Although U.S. efforts to maintain the moratorium have steadily lost support (the last vote, on Oct. 8, 1960, was 42 to 32, with 22 abstentions), some State Department experts believe that the closure on debate can be indefinitely maintained. Next time the issue is raised, they argue, the U.S. delegation might well pick...