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...forces for the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores," and to show a wholehearted U.S. determination to that end. Commenting that this authority would cover "closely related localities," he singled out for special mention the island of Quemoy, only five miles off the Chinese mainland, which Chiang Kai-shek considers vital to the defense of Formosa. The message carefully avoided any reference to future use of the Chiang-held territory to liberate the mainland, and just as carefully said that the situation was too critical to await appropriate action by the United Nations...
...September 6 edition of Time reports that Chiang Kai-Shek, "appealed in the same of humanity to 'all Chinese', whatever their political persuasion, and to all 'foreign friends' to save the mainland from disaster." Time continues, "In doing so, Chiang, a practicing Christian, showed . . . magnanimity, good sense and imagination...
...pursuit of such ways, Dulles spent 1954 in a ceaseless round of travel, logging 101,521 miles on journeys to Berlin, London, Paris, Caracas, Bonn, Geneva, Milan, Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business...
Said Chou: "Taiwan [Formosa] is China's territory, and Chiang Kai-shek is the public enemy of the Chinese people. To liberate Taiwan and liquidate the traitorous Chiang Kai-shek clique is a matter which falls entirely within the scope...
...first time since the "vest-pocket war" began off China's coast, the Reds last week used airplanes against Chiang Kai-shek's island bastions. Nine Russian-built, twin-engined bombers appeared over the Nationalist-held Tachens (200 miles north of Formosa and 15 miles from the Chekiang coast) and dropped more than 40 bombs, killing five persons. Previously, during the September skirmish around Quemoy, the Reds had used artillery only, and Washington concluded that the Communists were exercising prudence to make sure that air power did not tangle with the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Apparently, the Communists...