Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiang to hold back if a Hungary-type uprising broke out on the mainland. For the U.S.'s part, Dulles explicitly recognized in the joint communique that "under the present conditions" (i.e., as long as the Red Chinese keep up acts of aggression), the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is "closely related" to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores...
Recession and individual local matters are the main campaign issues, according to Freidel. "People don't care as much about Quemoy and Matsu as they do about their own problems...
Dulles was concerned, too, about the transparent Communist Chinese attempts to drive a wedge between the Nationalists and their U.S. ally. So was Chiang Kaishek, who called reporters into his austere Formosa office for one of his rare formal statements: "If we have to evacuate Quemoy and Matsu under pressure, not only the Chinese people but all people of Asia would lose confidence in America. Anti-Communists living on the mainland would also be disillusioned...
...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd in Britain, he would ride his converted Boeing KC-135 jet over the pole, be on Formosa for planning talks with Chiang by midweek. One area of likely discussion: if the Communist cease-fire becomes "dependable," the Nationalists could thin out their forces on Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for a guarantee of increased-but nonatomic-U.S. firepower...
...York Times, which had applauded the President's "momentous" speech last month drawing the line against appeasement at Quemoy and Matsu, last week advocated that the islands be turned over to Communist China...