Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, have you given any personal assurance or made any commitment to Chiang Kai-shek that we would help defend Quemoy and Matsu if those islands were attacked...
...President Eisenhower in 1955 sent his "personal assurance" to Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, thereby "satisfying him" that the U.S. would help defend Quemoy and Matsu, the islands in the Strait of Formosa off the Red Chinese mainland...
...thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed by congressional resolution-to defend Formosa by force, but wanted the U.S. to declare its specific intent to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu as well. The President, sensing Britain's opposition as well as the military value of being indefinite, in effect overruled his two strategic advisers...
...Adenauer will step down during the year. Sir Anthony Eden, whose health is worse than the public realizes, will take a much less part in the British government. Next spring or summer, Red China will begin its long-awaited attack on Quemoy and Matsu. The Matsus will be captured by the Chinese. A slump is due for midyear. However, I predict the Eisenhower Administration will dust off various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will...
...called for the geisha to be spirited away whenever the "black ships" of the Americans were in port-and as these absences lengthened, Okichi consoled herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself painfully to the banks of the Inubusawa River...