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...such notable progress that it was easy to view without alarm or depression the evacuation of Chinese Nationalist forces from Nanchi Island off the China coast. Nanchi has little or no military significance. If the Communists try to pursue their success by attacking the islands of Quemoy and Matsu on the way to Formosa, they are very likely to find that retreat has ended and that the air and naval strength of the U.S. Seventh Fleet stands in their...
...assistance in holding it). Only a few days before the withdrawal, a high Nationalist spokesman had announced that Nanchi would be defended in battle and its soldiers would not surrender one inch of territory. Last week, admitting the evacuation, Nationalist Premier O. K. Yui told the Legislative Yuan that Matsu and Quemoy would be held for a "fight to the death...
...mainland across from the Tachens have now moved south, in spite of repeated Nationalist air attacks on their junks. Red surface craft have moved south of Wenchow, and are operating from small ports between Wenchow and Foochow. The Communists have a jet airfield at Foochow-across from Matsu-and can now ship fuel from Shanghai to Foochow without much trouble from Nationalist air. Washington believes that when fuel stocks at the Foochow base are sufficiently built up, Red MIGs will appear there...
Probable next Chinese Communist target: Matsu...
...encounter. Its worry, as hinted by Dulles, is the thought of what happens if non-Communist Asians lose heart and collapse into Communism. Then, indeed, there might be a general conflict, with the Western powers attempting to rescue Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Burma and even Japan. Quemoy and Matsu have one meaning in the U.S. nightmare, another in the British nightmare. Dulles' main task at the Manila Pact conference in Bangkok this week will be to state the Asian danger in terms that will bring Britain and other participating nations to understand why the long-range U.S. responsibility calls...