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...their visit, conveniently timed with the 50th anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, will be a Tribute-to-Sweden Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza-a smorgasbord benefit to raise funds for a new youth cultural center in Jerusalem. On his 74th birthday Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek chose to underscore one of the hottest issues in the U.S. election by journeying to the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins University, got word from doctors...
...forceful in his replies. Who won? Increasingly, people seemed to be judging the debating as theatrical performances, and this time partisans of each seemed to think their candidate had won. But the rest of the world had only begun to listen in on the Quemoy-Matsu issue. On Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's spokesmen angrily denounced Kennedy, promised to fight to the military limit for the islands. In Washington the State Department denied that negotiations were in progress (as Kennedy suggested) for removal of 100,000 Nationalist troops from the embattled islands, and privately complained that the debate...
...fall of 1954, five years after the Chinese Communists seized the mainland, they first bombarded Quemoy. The resulting pressures on the U.S. from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek produced a Mutual Defense Treaty, committing the U.S. to aid in the defense of Formosa and the nearby Pescadores islands (see map). At President Eisenhower's behest, Congress in January 1955 passed the so-called Formosa Resolution authorizing the President to use American forces "as he deems necessary for the specific purpose of securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack, this authority to include the securing and protection...
Spain's aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to the Virgin of the Rosary. La Coruña's clergy had always treated Franco as a favorite son and made much of him; this time Franco sat in the church, unmentioned by the officiating cardinal archbishop. It was an obvious and obviously calculated slight...
...works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco "the hangman of the Spanish people...