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...importer, stoutly pro-Nationalist and antiCommunist, who passed some of the ammunition to Senator Joe McCarthy in McCarthy's assault on the State Department. Others accused of being co-conspirators include private U.S. citizens, publishers, Congressmen (chiefly Walter Judd, ex-missionary to China), Senators (chiefly California's Knowland and New Hampshire's Bridges). It was yet to be shown that they had done anything sinister. Principally, they were concerned in saving China from Communism. In this they have some potent allies, ranging in the Senate from Ohio's Robert Taft to Illinois' Paul Douglas...
...sharpest interchanges, in a hearing where there were few, came right at the start. California's William F. Knowland, the best prepared questioner on the Republican side, demanded that the State Department release for publication a directive it had sent out in December 1949 declaring that "Formosa has no special military significance," and ordering its missions to combat "the mistaken popular conception of its strategic importance to the U.S. defense in the Pacific...
...Replied Knowland: "I place an entirely different aspect on this document ... I think it is a key document of the foreign policy of this country which led up to the statement of the President on Jan. 5 that the U.S. would give no further military aid to Formosa, and which . . . led up to the situation where the U.S. Government was prepared both to recognize the Communist regime of China and ultimately to turn Formosa over to them...
...KNOWLAND: "At what time and by whom was the Department of State ever advised that [Formosa] was not of strategic importance...
...KNOWLAND : "The Supreme Commander in the Far East, General MacArthur, felt rather strongly on that subject...