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GREEN: "Why do you think that the Chinese now on Formosa . . . could achieve a victory when Chiang Kai-shek suffered such a severe defeat previously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Course Ahead | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...proposals," said Douglas MacArthur, "stand the best chance that is possible of ending this war in the quickest time and with the least cost in blood." Under the Senators' questioning, he spelled it out in careful detail-the blockade and bombing of China, the "unleashing" of Chiang Kai-shek's forces, the conviction that a U.S. ground invasion of the China mainland would be unnecessary and wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Course Ahead | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Supposing that we were eventually able by force to destroy the present power of the Chinese Communist regime, what would take its place? I doubt if anyone but Chiang Kai-shek believes that he could form a government to take over and administer again the four hundred millions of the Chinese sub-continent. The strength of the Chinese Communist regime, which is now being manifested against us, has not been built in a day but over a whole generation of activity in organizing the peasantry in the populous countryside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Opposes Extending Conflict to China, Sees No Real Advantage in Bombing Manchuria | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

...Government but also by the governments of the free world," said Fulbright. "Are we now prepared for the unlimited requirements of the third world war? . . . Are our allies ready? ... Is today or tomorrow the most favorable moment for the U.S. and its allies? . . . Shall we gain Chiang Kai-shek and lose Britain, France, Italy, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Greece and Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shifts & Middle Ground | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Change, Really. The Administration was finding its wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shifts & Middle Ground | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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