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...worked tirelessly to keep diverse peoples and leaders united in common purpose and also to educate himself; he negotiated skillfully at scores of world conferences. When he moved out ahead of public opinion, as he did in trying to push the European Defense Community and to save Quemoy and Matsu, he could yield with a lawyer's tactical skill, always returning to his theme when the times had caught up with...
...probe of U.S. intentions. His response was immediate and unmistakable. The President sought and got a congressional resolution of support for U.S. defense of Formosa and the Pescadores; the President followed that up with a personal letter to Nationalist China's Chiang promising support at islands Quemoy and Matsu. Result: the Communists backed off, and the whole Red China offensive, rolling ever since Mao Tse-tung came out of the Yenan caves, was bogged down...
...advocated strong U.S. support for Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and South Korea's Syngman Rhee while restraining them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy and Matsu islands. He outargued liberal critics who urged the recognition of Red China, drew his moral from the record of the Truman Administration. "The U.S.," said he, "does bear a very large part of the responsibility for the loss of China to the Communists. If we had applied the policies...
After Mao Tse-tung wound up his secret talks with Khrushchev in Peking, Radio Peking formally proclaimed that Quemoy-Matsu would be assaulted as a prelude to an attack against Formosa. U.S. and Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including...
...BATTLE: The Communists held back their big air force from Quemoy-Matsu, but flew out over the Formosa Strait. Result: bitter dogfights between Red MIG-17s and slower Nationalist F-86 Sabres. The MIGs have a capability of 60,000 ft. and 635 knots with afterburner. The Sabres have a top altitude of 48,000 ft. and speed of 600 knots. Yet the Nationalists routed the MIGs. The big difference lay in pilot quality: the Nationalist airmen were eager and carefully trained-their flying time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced...