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...hundred and two undergraduates signed a petition protesting "the military involvement of the United States in the defense of Quemoy and Matsu" yesterday while the Harvard Liberal Union was collecting $120 to help repair the Clinton, Tenn., high school...
...Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold the 'islands against Communist aggression in the Pacific, but negotiate if the Communists agree to a cease-fire-was obviously not understood by everybody...
...would not fight just to defend Quemoy and Matsu but to stop Communism's heralded advance into the west Pacific-"I cannot dismiss these boastings as mere bluff...
Quemoy and Matsu. "What is at stake is not just Quemoy and Matsu, and not just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...
...Eisenhower Administration's ostrich-like desire to ignore public opinion on foreign affairs, particularly Quemoy and Matsu, is an anomaly in a democratic society. The thesis, as maintained by the President and vice-President, that free speech must be sacrificed for the appearance of a united front, could set a peculiarly dangerous precedent...