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...Nixon's position, or at least one of his positions, was as untenable as that of the Nationalists on the islands. To state that these two groups of islands, situated as Fort Sumter was in the middle of the harbors of two major mainland ports, and 120 miles from Formosa, are in "the area of freedom" and must be defended on principle, is to ignore the problem of how or why they are to be defended. To state that they will be defended if they are attacked as part of a campaign against Formosa ignores the fact that...
...broad terms of mission and purpose. ("That." said he. "is the big issue.") But Nixon topped him with a sureness on cold war specifics. Most notable: Kennedy plumped for U.S. withdrawal from the offshore Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu to facilitate an orderly defense of Formosa; Nixon warned quickly that withdrawal would start a "chain reaction": "The Communists." said he, "aren't after Quemoy and Matsu. They are after Formosa." He snapped at "the same kind of woolly thinking that led to disaster for America in Korea...
...interpreted as appeasement? Answered Kennedy: Administration experts including Secretary of State Herter (as Under Secretary in 1958) have declared Quemoy and Matsu strategically indefensible, so "we should consult with [the Nationalists] and attempt to work out a plan by which the line is drawn at the island of Formosa ... I think it is unwise to take the chance of being dragged into a war which may lead to a world war over two islands which are not strategically defensible." Nixon seized on the answer to hoist himself to the high point of his evening. "The question is not these...
When Lei Chen, 63, publisher of Formosa's wistfully ineffective opposition Free China Fortnightly, in August announced plans to start a China Democratic Party to give the Kuomintang its first real opposition (TIME, Sept. 19), the authorities apparently decided to arrest him first on sedition charges and then see what proof they could find. They also arrested his business manager, Ma Chih-su, 38, and his former accountant and secretary, quiet, moody Liu Tzu-ying, 54. Without waiting for the trial, the government's Central Daily News laid out the government's case. Secretary Liu had confessed...
...that he had stayed in Nanking after the fall of the city, and had talked with the wife of former (1939-42) Nationalist Ambassador to Moscow Shao Li-tze, who subsequently defected to the Communists. He promised her that he would carry on Communist propaganda work once he reached Formosa. But he said that when he told Publisher Lei of his plans, Lei warned him that the security was too strict, so he did nothing subversive...