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Last week members of the U.N. Security Council bowed to the intransigence of Red China's General Wu Hsiu-chuan (see WAR IN ASIA) and wound up their discussion of the Korean and Formosan questions. Fatalistically, the representatives of the free world heard Russia's Jacob Malik veto a resolution ordering Communist China to end her intervention in Korea...
Later the same day seven members of the Chinese delegation marched in for their Security Council meeting. The Chinese listened intently for 2½ hours while Russia's Malik and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued whether the Council should discuss the Formosan question alone or the Korean and Formosan problem jointly. In the end the U.S. view that Formosa and Korea should be discussed simultaneously won out, and it was agreed to seat the Chinese Reds at the Council table. In one weekend, the Chinese Reds had punched a 20-mile hole in the U.N. line in Korea...
...largest circulations of any American magazines, on Double Tenth (October 10), China's Fourth of July, commemorating the end of the Manchu dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. That afternoon he took in his favorite spectator sport, a baseball game played before some 70,000 Formosan fans, including ex-head-hunting aborigines down from the hills for the occasion...
What does America want as the solution to the Formosan crisis...
...last two years Formosans have grown more contented. Nationalist authorities have done a good job of economic reconstruction. Formosa's overall production this year will be up to 75% of what it was in good prewar years. Formosan tenant farmers, who under the Japanese paid as much as 70% of their crops in rent, now pay only 37% to the landlord. Formosans have also been mollified by the improved morale of 500,000 Nationalist troops largely trained by V.M.I.-educated General...