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President Eisenhower's statement that the U.S. is willing to negotiate with Communist China on a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait set off high winds on Capitol Hill. Quick and bitter criticism came from Senate Republican Leader William Knowland and from Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner. Retired Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, onetime (1945-49) U.S. commandant in Berlin and now a vice-chancellor of New York University, also spoke out bluntly against his old commander. Finally, at week's end, a dozen G.O.P. Senators, rallied to action by New Jersey's Senator...
Remember Munich. Only four hours after the President had made his statement, California's Knowland summoned the press and attacked the position of his party's Administration. Said Knowland: "I find it hard to comprehend how we could enter into direct negotiations with Communist China without the interests of the Republic of China being deeply involved. History teaches us that prior experience of great powers negotiating in the absence of small allies has not reflected great credit upon the large nations, and has been disastrous to the small ones . . . I refer to Munich . . . and to Yalta...
Senator William F. Knowland reaffirmed his position Friday that Quemoy and the Matsu Islands should not be allowed to fall into Communist hands. The loss of these islands, he said, would be considered as a great Communist victory in Asia by the free Asiatics, undermining the security of the Western world...
Speaking in an overcrowded Harkness Common to 500 people, Knowland said it is important for the United States "to demonstrate to the Communist world that there will be no further retreats or the abandonment of free people into Communist hands...
President of the HYRC John R. Thomson '57 arranged to have Knowland appear when he heard the senator was planning to speak before the Suffolk County Republicans' luncheon at the Hotel Bradford today...