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What was not said was that the U.S. conferees wanted to take punitive action against the Chinese invaders, e.g., blockade China's ports, bomb Manchurian supply centers, supply and encourage Chiang Kai-shek and anti-Communist guerrillas on China's mainland. The British were against any such "limited war." They doubted that it was possible to limit war, and believed that most of their friends in the U.N. supported this view...
...Britain's known willingness, when the talks began, to give Formosa to the Communists in a peace settlement-an attitude that many Americans labeled appeasement, no matter what protestations the communiqué made. The U.S. insisted that it would not be blackmailed by Mao into sacrificing Chiang Kai-shek for what it was sure could only be a temporary peace in the Far East. Attlee reluctantly accepted this point of view...
Time to Be Primitive. Douglas wanted the U.S. to accept Chiang Kai-shek's offer to send 33,000 soldiers of his Formosa army to Korea. Quoting an old soldiers' saying, Douglas added: "'He's an s.o.b., but he's our s.o.b.' Sometimes things get as primitive as that and if you wait until you have perfect allies . . . you will be very lonely...
...dispersed one roadblock and nothing more was heard of the other three. One day 100 cold and famished Chinese came out of the hills and surrendered. Some said they were former Nationalist soldiers who had been dragooned into the Red army, and that they now wanted to join Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
While the Seventh Fleet steamed toward the Formosa Straits, Washington ordered Chiang Kai-shek to stop his air and water raids which were playing havoc with Communist shipping. Later, it brusquely turned down Chiang's offer to send 33,000 troops to Korea, where they might have come in handy last week. Washington's policy was directed by the fear that any action strengthening Chiang would bring the Chinese Communists into the Korean war and by the belief that appeasing Mao would keep them...