Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having this conference . . . at the request and at the direction of the President." The precipitate performance on the Formosa question, as he explained it, had been necessary because "this subject has become one of the foremost subjects of discussion throughout the country . . . We have had leak and counter-leak, gossip and counter-gossip . . . and therefore it was the President's desire to clarify the situation...
Actually not leak and gossip, but the hard core of fact and opposition behind them had become intolerably embarrassing for the Administration. The facts: 1) the Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play...