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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles Tuesday heralded a possible major shift in America's China policy. He offered to try trimming Nationalist military strength in the Formosa Strait offshore islands if the Communists quit shooting...
...Landing Ships, Dock which carry eight smaller landing craft in their holds, already is at Formosa and has made a run to Quemoy with big howitzers. The spokesman did not say when the other ships...
...midst of all this preparation for a big war, the nasty little war went on unabated. Thanks to new convoy tactics, things were looking up on the cratered beaches of besieged Quemoy. Every day but one last week at least one Nationalist LST lumbered out from southern Formosa to the waters off Quemoy, there disgorged a flock of amphibious LVTs (Landing Vehicles, Tracked), which churned into the beach and quickly unloaded their cargoes. Small and elusive, the LVTs moved through the inevitable Communist artillery barrage with relative impunity...
...Communists should decide to convert their harassment of Quemoy into a no-holds-barred war, the U.S. was ready. Last week the disparate units and individuals on Formosa were reorganized into a unified combat command under Vice Admiral Roland Smoot. Between them, the new Formosa Defense Command and the Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77 could hammer China with a destructive power unequalled in the previous history of warfare. But, barring an almost incredible improvement in supply techniques, the Chinese Communists held Quemoy in a vise so tight that they need never challenge the mighty force that...
...grumpy reporters around the bar at the Friends of China Club in Formosa, the two-edged motto of the day was, "Down with everything!" Censorship jointly imposed by U.S. and Chinese Nationalist forces last week reduced the 44 foreign correspondents on Formosa to reporting the Chinese Communists' attacks on Quemoy from scraps of released information, e.g., "An amount of supplies was landed...