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...catch Mao's ear, Harry Truman chose to talk mostly about Formosa-instead of Korea. The Chinese Communists had protested belligerently to the United Nations about the "aggressive" U.S. Seventh Fleet lying in the Formosan straits. Said the President at his press conference last week: of course, the Seventh Fleet would be pulled out as soon as the Korean war was over. In English or in Mandarin this seemed to mean: stay out of Korea, fellows, and when the ruckus there is all over, Formosa will be left out in the open, where you can grab...
John Osborne, TIME-LiFE senior correspondent in the Far East, visited the Formosan capital of Taipei last week, cabled...
...inquiries, the Chinese were told in all seriousness that there would be no problem of communication or plane identification since the Seventh Fleet would stay completely away from Formosa. Incredulous Chinese officials pointed out that planes from a U.S. carrier would surely at some time or other approach the Formosan coast. What if a U.S. plane were in trouble far from its carrier-would it ditch at sea rather than land on Formosa? The American attitude remained: you boys just relax, you'll never see Seventh Fleet ships or planes...
...Senator Bill Knowland, just back from a visit to China's retreating Nationalist armies, warned: "Munich certainly should have taught us that appeasement of aggression, then as now, is but surrender on the installment plan." To this ailing Arthur Vandenberg added a restrained, nonpartisan postscript. "The Formosan question is presently clarified," he said, "but it is not settled...
...power plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...