Word: formosae
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...actively waged the cold war in those terms. "The arena is vast," he wrote in his book, War or Peace. "It embraces the whole world, and all political, military, economic and spiritual forces within it." And as he handled the unending procession of Communist-made crises-Korea, Indo-China, Formosa Strait, Iran, Guatemala, Jordan, Lebanon, Quemoy, Berlin-he threw into the cold struggle all of freedom's political, military, economic, spiritual strength. Specifically...
...battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side. Red China shifted thousands of troops from the North China-Korea theater to the newly threatened coast...
...brief civil war in 1947, in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was another civil war: that in China. As Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven from the mainland to Formosa, it was inevitable that the Reds would soon attempt to assert the Chinese suzerainty that had been largely ineffectual for nearly 40 years...
...rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said Ike to the sinewy little (5 ft. 7 in.) monarch at a White House luncheon: "Since the American people honor and admire courage, they have for you a real feeling...
Manchudini. In Taipei, Formosa, when police came to investigate reports of the fraudulent activities of Yang Yung-wei, Yang politely asked them to be seated, and-when they were comfortably settled-stepped quickly out of the room, locking the door behind...