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...cease-fire in the troubled area. This statement of policy was partly designed to be read in Europe as evidence of the President's patience and peacefulness. But it was read in Asia as confirmation of the suspicion that the U.S. had abandoned all hope of helping Chiang Kai-shek liberate the mainland; it even seemed to remove from the backs of the Reds the pressure that Formosa as a threat exerts on their military freedom, on their economy and on their political self-confidence...
...however the cease-fire declarations were intended-has moved nearer to the British position that Chiang Kai-shek should be firmly tied down to Formosa and the Reds recognized as the government of China. The failure to fight Korea through to victory, the defeat in Indo-China, the squabble between the Western allies over China policy, are all part of the same retrograde movement...
...What does the statement say?" asked George. "It says that Chiang Kai-shek will not make the decision...It means that no admiral here and no line officer off the coast of China, in the Formosa Straits or elsewhere, will start it. It means, in explicit terms, that the decision will be made here, that it will be a personal decision of the President of the U.S....God keep us out of war, but if war must come, let us not draw a line and say that beyond that line is a sanctuary which the enemy may occupy...We would...
While Korea trained the Chinese Communist army, it did nothing for the Nationalist Chinese army, which was not allowed to send units to Korea-"a terrible mistake," said Van Fleet. Using Chiang Kai-shek's divisions, said Infantryman Van Fleet, would have told "which of his generals are good in combat and what the Nationalist troops can really do. Even today we do not know that answer...
...will not come. The Americans cannot protect you. So have courage. Get in touch with us. We will wait to the last minute. Please come ..." Up to last week, Nationalist leaders professed to be amused by these appeals, although they were more concerned about the effect among Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces (some of whom have received individual messages), and security measures were tightened. Now the Chinese Nationalists fear that, if the impression of U.S. feebleness and indecision spreads in Asia, the Red siren calls will be so much the stronger-and will fail on ever more...