Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American policies. Thus, although Eden has recognized Communist China's claim to admission into the United Nations, he has hesitated to demand it for fear of alienating the U.S. Labour stands for pressing this claim. Both parties urged the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek's forces from Quemoy and Matsu back to Formosa; while the Conservatives thought in terms of their "two Chinas" policy, the Socialists suggested that the Formosans hold a plebiscite after several years to decide if they would form an independent country or belong to Red China...
...good faith before such talks are held. The Conservatives hint broadly that they'll heed the Socialists' demand to cut the conscription period from the present two years. When they get around to Formosa, they urge Chiang Kai-shek to pull his troops off Quemoy and Matsu, and say: "This could lead to the reconsideration at an appropriate moment both of Chinese representation in the United Nations and the future of Formosa." That is a plain promise that if the Tories win this election they will press for a sellout of Chiang and Formosa...
...Labor platform merely goes a bit further than the Conservative. It calls for an immediate end to all atom and hydrogen bomb tests, immediate withdrawal by Chiang from Quemoy and Matsu, the "neutralization" of Formosa, and admission of Red China to the U.N. What both of these platforms add up to can be described in one word-appeasement. So, whether Tories or Socialists win this election, we'll have an "ally" dedicated to knuckling under to Red tyranny all around the world and persistently pressuring our Government to do likewise...
...called any grant of concessions to Communists equal to the yielding of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in the Munich Conference of 1938. "The loss of Quemoy and Matsu have both a military and a psychological...
Senator William F. Knowland reaffirmed his position Friday that Quemoy and the Matsu Islands should not be allowed to fall into Communist hands. The loss of these islands, he said, would be considered as a great Communist victory in Asia by the free Asiatics, undermining the security of the Western world...