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...Needed Lift. At year's end the U.S. had many more reasons for hope and confidence than at year's beginning under Sputnik's beep-beep. The U.S. was solid on holding Berlin, unifying Germany by free elections, strengthening NATO, defending Formosa and Quemoy, adding to deterrent power, pressing and pressing again the need for more trade and aid. The strong foundation: the health of the U.S. economy and way of life as evidenced in 1958 by recovery from recession at home (confounding a basic Marxist proposition) and by the popularity overseas of U.S. staples that ranged...
...Southern Baptist Formosa Mission had sent a formal protest to the U.S. ambassador on Formosa, Everett F. Drumright. The Chinese pastors of 57 Protestant churches and organizations on Formosa denounced the resolution's "terribly misguided judgment." In a radio broadcast this week, the Rev. Daniel A. Poling, Dutch Reformed editor of the Christian Herald, reported that the leading spokesman for the Protestant missionary and educational groups in Formosa had told him: "Out here, the decision of the Cleveland conference is almost beyond belief ... To us it is betrayal-betrayal of their enslaved, tortured and often martyred fellow Christians...
...BATTLE: The Communists held back their big air force from Quemoy-Matsu, but flew out over the Formosa Strait. Result: bitter dogfights between Red MIG-17s and slower Nationalist F-86 Sabres. The MIGs have a capability of 60,000 ft. and 635 knots with afterburner. The Sabres have a top altitude of 48,000 ft. and speed of 600 knots. Yet the Nationalists routed the MIGs. The big difference lay in pilot quality: the Nationalist airmen were eager and carefully trained-their flying time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced...
PROPAGANDA BATTLE: The Communists keyed their bombardment to a ceaseless propaganda attack, listed 40 specific charges of U.S. aggression in the Formosa Strait, whipped up a homeside hate campaign by accusing Chinese Nationalists of using poison-gas shells. By loudspeakers and leaflet shells the Communists offered the Quemoy garrison attractive surrender terms; by letters routed through Hong Kong, they offered top Nationalists big bribes if they would desert. At the same time they beat on the theme that with the U.S. elections due on Nov. 4, there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek...
...specific book of rules can be written out of the Formosa experience, since the Communists can mix their efforts into whatever formula they feel will best serve their designs. But Quemoy proved the success of certain U.S. policies. For one, the U.S. established the cold-war value of anti-Communist Asian forces ready to fight for what they have. Military-assistance investments of many years were justified and paid out in the Quemoy crisis of 1958. The second and never-to-be-forgotten lesson is that the Communist intentions remain as they have been in the past-to eliminate...