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...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...
...time the third round of the television debates went on the air-with Vice President Richard Nixon speaking from Los Angeles and Senator John Kennedy from Manhattan-both candidates were tightlipped. Through the week they had been lobbing charges at each other on the Quemoy-Matsu question stirred up in Debate No. 2. In Albuquerque, Nixon warned that Kennedy's proposed abandonment of the two Chinese offshore islands would be "the road to war, the road to surrender. We must not give up an inch of territory." At Knott's Berry Farm, near Long Beach, Calif., he added...
Then came a hot question to Nixon. Would he launch the U.S. into a war-conventional or nuclear-if Quemoy or Matsu were attacked? Answered Nixon...
...what Senator Kennedy has suggested, to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance, is not something that would lead to peace." (Earlier at the Waldorf, Kennedy had suggested that the United Nations might take over Quemoy and Matsu as a compromise...
...form, and he was forceful in his replies. Who won? Increasingly, people seemed to be judging the debating as theatrical performances, and this time partisans of each seemed to think their candidate had won. But the rest of the world had only begun to listen in on the Quemoy-Matsu issue. On Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's spokesmen angrily denounced Kennedy, promised to fight to the military limit for the islands. In Washington the State Department denied that negotiations were in progress (as Kennedy suggested) for removal of 100,000 Nationalist troops from the embattled islands, and privately...