Word: formosae
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...ready to go to war over Quemoy and Matsu, sitting ducks for the Commies, and strategically zero in the defense of Formosa. We should throw away American lives for these little rocks off the Red Chinese coast...
...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, in a letter to President Eisenhower, issued a virtual ultimatum that the U.S. must withdraw its forces from Formosa Strait, abandon not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa as well-or be faced by the combined might of Russia and Red China...
Secretary of State Dulles said Thursday night Russia could, if it wanted to, make possible a peaceful solution of the Formosa crisis...
Dulles said Red China, aided and abetted by Soviet supplies, is "threatening war against us in the Formosa area...
Britain and France joined in supporting efforts of the United States to get a cease-fire as a first step toward resolving the Formosa crisis...