Word: formosae
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Waves of Doubt. When this word got to Formosa, Chiang Kai-shek seemed and sounded almost blankly uncomprehending. Said Chiang: "What Mr. Dulles is quoted as having said seems completely incompatible with our stand and does not sound like him. I cannot tell right away whether Mr. Dulles has made the remarks attributed to him for diplomatic reasons or with other purposes in mind." Chiang's Nationalist Chinese officials hurled bitter words at Americans-"betrayal," "doublecross...
...Ambassador to Taipei Everett Drumright seemed equally nonplused. Drumright reported Formosa's mood to Washington in such terms that Dulles, promptly, reassuringly, sent word to Chiang that U.S. policy had not changed...
...congressional resolution of 1955 empowered the President to use U.S. forces in the Formosa area if the President-not the Congress-decided that Formosa was threatened. "I welcome the opinions and counsel of others. But in the last analysis such opinions cannot legally replace...
...allies, other than Nationalist China, had no commitment to help the U.S. in the Formosa area, but "I believe that most of them would be appalled if the U.S. were spinelessly to retreat before the threat of Sino-Soviet armed aggression...
...added C-119 flying boxcars to the tremendous buildup on Formosa, and U.S. military men made the heartening prognosis that vulnerable Quemoy, seven miles from the Communist mainland, could be held, probably indefinitely...