Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confusion Compounded. Early in the week intelligence reports to the vacation White House in Newport, R.I. convinced the President that it was time to make the U.S. position unmistakably clear. U.S. Navy destroyers were escorting Nationalist supply ships to the three-mile limit off Quemoy, but the Nationalists were being clobbered on the beaches (see FOREIGN NEWS) by Communist artillery. It was not impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over...
...Nationalist soldiers dug into the sandy soil of Quemoy Island, it was a grim week. While U.S. destroyers watched helplessly from outside the three-mile limit, Communist guns raked Que-moy's yellow beaches, effectively preventing Nationalist transports from replenishing the island's dwindling stocks of food, ammunition and medicine. Over the horizon, almost lost in the haze covering Formosa Strait, prowled Task Force 77 of the Seventh Fleet-the Sunday punch which the U.S. was holding back as long as the Communists refrained from all-out attack...
...reported that no significant shipping had reached it since the Communists opened up their artillery assault three weeks ago. Five days later, in response to the Communist blockade, two U.S. heavy cruisers and six U.S. destroyers escorted a pair of Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy's three-mile limit in broad daylight. Said Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Now the problem of keeping the sea lanes open in the Formosa Strait is up to the Seventh Fleet...
...There is no doubt these islands will have to go to China, and this fact should be recognized and acted upon peacefully." The British government, moved by its fisheries "war" with Iceland (see below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events in the Formosa Strait. But in private, British Foreign Office spokesmen made no bones of their lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of active U.S. participation in defense of the offshore islands...
...quarrel grew from Iceland's unilateral decision to extend its territorial waters to a twelve-mile limit and to ban fishing by foreigners within that area (TIME, June 16). Britain's answer was to escort its trawler fleet with frigates of the Royal Navy, far more powerful than the one-gun patrol boats of the Icelandic coast guard. The British point: if Iceland gets away with a twelve-mile limit, other nations with valuable fishing grounds-Norway, Denmark, Canada-might follow suit...