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California's Senator Bill Knowland, just back from a visit to China's retreating Nationalist armies, warned: "Munich certainly should have taught us that appeasement of aggression, then as now, is but surrender on the installment plan." To this ailing Arthur Vandenberg added a restrained, nonpartisan postscript. "The Formosan question is presently clarified," he said, "but it is not settled...
...face of vocal opposition from a bloc of Republicans led by Senators William F. Knowland and Robert A. Taft, President Truman declared Thursday that the Untied States would send neither naval forces nor troops to Formosa to protect it against invasion by the Chinese Communists...
California's Senator Knowland plans to offer a $175 million Far Eastern amendment along the lines of the one defeated in the House...
...Acheson refuses to accept the Knowland proposal. Instead, he has his aides looking for some other bill to serve the same purpose. His attitude has convinced leading Republican Senators that he really opposes the whole idea, still sides with the department's dust-settling faction. At the moment, the chance of a positive program in China seems slim...
...Republicans but not what they thought for themselves. The rebellious "liberals": Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Connecticut's Raymond Baldwin, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, Oregon's Wayne Morse, California's William Knowland, Minnesota's Edward Thye, North Dakota's Milton Young, South Dakota's Chan Gurney, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey. They had their own candidate for Taft's job as GOPolicy boss: Massachusetts' tall, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge...