Word: matsu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the politically beleaguered islands of Quemoy and Matsu began to float out of the center of U.S. debate and back to their rightful place in ambiguity along the China coast. The pollsters bustled across the U.S. like beaters on an African safari - and found themselves right where they were before the interruptions, staring into that great cliche of the 1960 campaign, the undecided vote...
...according to Pollster Sam Lubell, the Quemoy-Matsu issue, with all its tangled semantics, is one that has dan gers for Kennedy: 47% of the people in the nation agree with Nixon on the issue that "we can't give in to the Communists anywhere." and only 29% say that the islands of Quemoy and Matsu are not worth fighting...
Lausche, a notorious maverick, has come out unenthusiastically for Kennedy, Dorsey reports, and has issued "a statement agreeing more with Nixon than with Kennedy on Quemoy and Matsu." Dorsey says, "I don't believe he affects the people much." In Dorsey's opinion, smaller industrial towns south of Cleveland will hold the key to the election...
...correct principle involved is not, as Mr. Nixon has suggested, the defense of every inch of "freedom," but, as action in 1955 demonstrated, one of drawing a line which can reasonably be maintained and defended, as Quemoy and Matsu...
Although the positions of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy over Quemoy and Matsu have narrowed in the last few days, the issue provides an example of the dangers inherent in a presidential campaign. In their efforts to differentiate their stands, the two candidates have taken positions which can in charity only be called more extreme than is warranted...