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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles sought to reassure Chiang Kai-shek Thursday of continued U.S. support for his Nationalist China government...
TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 1--President Chiang Kai-shek balked at the U.S. formula for peace in Formosa Strait and his Nationalist government then flatly rejected it today...
Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to wrest the China mainland from the Communists. Dulles said Chiang's return "is a highly hypothetical matter...
Self-determination for the people of Taiwan should be followed by "a gentle indication that we don't think Chiang Kai-shek is ruler of the island any longer," Fairbank advised...
...speech to the nation on the Formosa Straits situation, President Eisenhower committed the country to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu should negotiations prove fruitless, and declared simultaneously that any such parleys could lead to no agreement "prejudicing" the position of Chiang Kai-Shek. Little else could be said in a public pronouncement, for surely the U.S. could not announce that it would yield to Red China's show of force. But no public pronouncement would have been better than one in which the President hamstrung the country between the militarism of Mao Tse-Tung and the intransigence of Chiang...