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...this "sitting on the fence" when Nationalist Chinese forces offer to fight in the war, which is much more their war than it is the war of young Americans. If Stalin arms Mao against us, let us arm Chiang Kai-shek against Stalin...
...aggressive move by Communists, Russian or satellite, wherever it came, the U.S. should go to war with Russia. In this view the U.S. should stay in Europe, wage an air and sea blockade on Communist China, and take allies where they could be found-Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and his army on Formosa, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his strategic Spain, Tito and Yugoslavia...
...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...