Word: formosae
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...Glee Club may tour Southeastern Asia during the summer of 1961, Elliot Forbes, professor of Music, announced yesterday. A tentative itinerary includes Hawaii, Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and possibly Australia...
...noted that the rise in language studies shows a certain optimism on the part of students interested in the foreign service. In the diplomatic corps, he pointed out, the only relation at present with Chinese speaking people is with Formosa...
...than the ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other nation that displeased it, just so long as peaceful India were left alone...
...possibility of a Soviet-Chinese deal, a patching up of present tiffs through a series of concessions on both sides. Russia, which is now concerned with keeping its bourgeoise respectability on the international scene, would get backing on its summit conference proposal and a promise of peace overtures towards Formosa. In exchange, Russia would step up economic assistance, wholeheartedly support the Chinese position in Tibet, and furnish nuclear weapons to its neighbor (perhaps in time to coincide with French tests in the Sahara...
...East-West relations remained Russia's position v. Red China's. In Peking fortnight ago, seemingly bent on restraining Chinese aggressiveness, Khrushchev had denounced "wars of conquest" but added that Marxists could still recognize "liberating wars"-precisely the label Red China would apply to an attack on Formosa. From Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary Douglas Dillon moved quickly to plug this loophole (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), warned that Moscow must share responsibility for Peking's acts...