Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
After Mao Tse-tung wound up his secret talks with Khrushchev in Peking, Radio Peking formally proclaimed that Quemoy-Matsu would be assaulted as a prelude to an attack against Formosa. U.S. and Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including...
Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and third member of the panel sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council, argued that the United States should "bring pressure on Chiang Kai-Shek to get a withdrawal of Nationalist troops from Quemoy and Matsu...
...Eisenhower's leadership: "I know that to many it may appear that he is not leading as vigorously as they would like, but many of these same people would disagree with the decisions he took about Lebanon, Quemoy and Matsu...
...time for the United States to drop its "father knows best" attitude toward Quemoy and Matsu, John Carter Vincent, Associate of the Center for East Asian Studies, said at Adams House last night...