Word: formosae
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...Announced, in a statement which brought a yell -of indignation from Red China, that the U.S. was sending an Air Force unit equipped with Matador missiles to Formosa to beef up the Nationalist Chinese defenses (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Saigon last week, protesting what they called inadequate support from Nationalist China, several hundred unhappy Chinese rioted, wrecked the Chinese legation, screamed denunciations at Chinese Minister Yuen Tse-kien. In Formosa's capital of Taipeh, Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh worried whether the Vietnamese demonstration was only the beginning: "We Chinese are being looked on as the Jews of Asia...
...There are over 14 million "overseas Chinese" outside Red China and Formosa. They make up 75% of the population of Singapore, 99% of Hong Kong, 20% of Thailand...
...confusion which has marked United States policy toward Red China since 1949 remains constant. At the same time that America is considering toning down the embargo on goods to Red China, it plans to send an atomic missile unit to Formosa. If any lessening of tension might derive from the trade action, it will be negated, if not overridden, by the nuclear weapons base...
Today the best of the old imperial collections reposes safely at Peikou, a rural hideaway in the central foothills of Formosa. There, stacked in three concrete warehouses and a large tunnel, are nearly 400,000 art objects-paintings, ancient bronzes, porcelains, gold plate, lacquer and jade. Many of the objects have been in packing cases since they were first hurriedly put away in 1934, when the Japanese armies approached Peking. Most have never been seen outside China. Now, with the opening of a small museum in Peikou, Chinese art lovers have their first chance in a generation...