Word: formosae
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...Quixote Uncle Sam has found another windmill in the Straits of Formosa...
...many bitter years since Yalta, it seems there are those who still do not fully realize that each successful Communist aggression breeds another. If the Chinese Communist regime seizes the smaller Nationalist isles, either by invasion or negotiated retreat, its next step will be Formosa, then all Southeast Asia, then India...
...Continued the U.S.'s own basic military buildup on Formosa itself-a buildup powerfully augmented last week by the arrival of the Army's Nike-Hercules ground-to-air atomic rockets; ¶ Persevered with the Warsaw talks, in their seventh session, between the U.S.'s Ambassador Jacob D. Beam and Red China's Ambassador Wang Ping-nan on how to make the cease-fire formal, even though Chinese Nationalists on Formosa termed the talks "futile...
Certainly Communist China had not been able to make good on the threat that it hurled at the Quemoy garrison on Aug. 27: "Your water routes to Formosa have been blockaded by us, and you have not the slightest hope of holding the island, being reinforced, or being able to withdraw." If the Reds had not abandoned hope of starving Quemoy out. they presumably would not have given the Nationalists an opportunity to cram supplies into the island unopposed. (By week's end Nationalist convoys had landed an estimated 28.000 tons of supplies on Quemoy-enough to meet minimum...
...wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told the Nationalists, "the day will come when the Americans will abandon you. The clue is already there...