Word: formosae
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...taken many a sling and arrow from behind. Last week Dulles was in the thick of a struggle to defend the beleaguered Chinese Nationalist island of Quemoy-from an attack begun and carried on night and day by Communist guns, backed by Peking's threats to conquer Formosa, and charged with tension by Moscow's bomb-rattling promise to throw the U.S. out of Asia. Yet Dulles had reason to wonder whether he did not have more to fear from his friends than from his enemies...
They said this basic policy remains: no appeasement of Red Chinese aggression but willingness to negotiate peacefully, support by arms if necessary of the existence of Nationalist China on Formosa...
Dulles sent a message to Formosa in the wake of Chiang's outcry Wednesday against statements by Dulles the day before...
...TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 1--President Chiang Kai-shek balked at the U.S. formula for peace in Formosa Strait and his Nationalist government then flatly rejected it today...
...official statement from the Foreign Ministry said troop cuts would clear the way for a Red invasion of Formosa and therefore "we cannot countenance the reduction of this defensive strength...