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Show of Force. Studying the reports of artillery duels, the inconclusive sea skirmishes and occasional dogfights between MIGs and Sabre jets, the U.S. sought to decide how serious were Communist intentions in Formosa Strait and concluded that even a probing action required an unmistakable response. The dispatch to Formosan waters of the U.S. carrier Essex-which in mid-July was helping to land marines in Lebanon-and the dispatch from Pearl Harbor of the big Midway the next day were ordered to make a show of force and to dramatize U.S. concern. As an added evidence of U.S. activity, Secretary...
...duplicity," says Gavin, let him conceal slashes in combat-ready divisions by creating "Wilson" divisions out of paper groups of troops as far apart as Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone. Wilson made good a foolish assurance to Congress that no additional soldiers were needed for Formosan defense, charges Gavin, by shipping groups over without shoulder patches...
...said as much at his weekly news conference in reply to a double-barreled question about 1) the "durability" of U.S. relations with the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, and 2) the "possibility" of reopening U.S.-Red Chinese trade. U.S.-Formosan relations, said the President, "are unchanged as a result [of the Taipei riots] as of this moment, and so far as I know, no one has suggested any change." As for trade with Peking, the embargo against it is a matter of "law" and "so long as that law is on the books, of course, that is that."* Correspondents quickly...
...will be built by U.S. and Chinese investors. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. has taken ten-year lease on Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Keelung, will add $2,000,000 to Chinese investors' $10 million for expansion, says it already has two contracts for 32,000-tonners. Formosan shipworkers will be sent to U.S. for training...
White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down...