Word: formosae
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...most important reason why Khrushchev withdrew his invitation to Dwight Eisenhower to visit Russia was a fear that in Russia, too, the people would enthusiastically respond to him as a symbol of the U.S. Last week, with the President preparing for a mid-June trip to the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and South Korea, Khrushchev worked desperately to discredit the symbol. Pravda followed up with a warning that it would do Ike "no good" to go to Japan...
...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
...foreign ministers' meeting to be opened this week by Vice President Nixon. While SEATO strategists were discussing the Red Chinese menace, the U.S. Air Force announced that it was getting ready to deploy a striking force of 120 supersonic jet fighters and other aircraft on maneuvers in Thailand, Formosa and the Philippines. Operation "Mobile Yoke," said the Air Force, was planned six months ago, just happened to be announced in a week when Communist artillery started firing...
...Western world about the new China. I find the Chinese people to be happy and cheerful, whereas in the West it is considered that the Chinese people are very depressed and unhappy." Then he handed the Reds a blockbuster to drop in their campaign to seize Nationalist-held Formosa: "I always consider that there is one China-and that China must be the one in which the government is in Peking, and that Taiwan [Formosa] is a part of China. This seems to be sensible...
...growing number of aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been built at one of the most scenic mountain spots, and the Chinese are even talking of skiing facilities an auto drive away from their tropical coastland...