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...soldiers" is an old Chinese proverb denoting a state of extreme nervousness and a feeling that one is surrounded by enemies. Last week Red China was using this hemmed-in feeling to justify its troop buildup in Fukien province across from the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy. The Reds have had heavy troop concentrations along the Formosa Strait for years, but by last week they had added an estimated 100,000 men, raising the total to about 450,000. Belligerently, Red China claimed that Chiang Kai-shek was "preparing for an invasion" of the mainland "with...
...China have had diplomatic contact in the past, the Chinese ambassador sought and received assurances from the U.S. ambassador that the U.S. would not support a Nationalist invasion of the mainland. But, said President Kennedy at his press conference, in the event of "aggressive action against Matsu and Quemoy . . . the U.S. will take the action necessary to assure the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores...
...QUEMOY AND MATSU. "Now I said to them [the Chinese Nationalists], as my military advice, not political advice, 'You would be much stronger to keep your major portion of your reserves in Formosa and the Pescadores, and make Quemoy and Matsu two real outpost fortresses. That is, have as few as possible troops, but heavily armed, and make them difficult to take.' Because remember, our doctrine did not say that the U.S. was committed to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. It said that if the President determined that any attack on Quemoy and Matsu was a mere...
...that the United States, in one phase of an Imagined program, has announced that on a given date it will move the seating of the People's Republic of Chins in the United Nations. The Chinese, misinterpreting this as a sign of weakness, stop up bombardment of Quemoy and Matsu and prepare to Invade . . . there is an invasion attempt, which is repulsed, but no counterattack on the Chinese mainland. Eventually hostilities peter out. In the meantime we have nevertheless moved the seating of the Chines in the United Nations--Just as If nothing untoward had happened. It would be vital...
Nationalist China began to wonder about John Kennedy and his advisers even before the election, when the future President implied that Quemoy and Matsu were not worth defending. Doubts rose higher after the inauguration, when the State Department leaked out hints of such possible diplomatic moves as a new "two China" policy and recognition of Outer Mongolia; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson seemed to surrender be fore the battle when months ago he spoke of Red China's admission to the U.N. as being inevitable. Recently, Formosa's dismay over U.S. diplomacy rose to such a degree that Ambassador...