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Word: matsue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and two undergraduates signed a petition protesting "the military involvement of the United States in the defense of Quemoy and Matsu" yesterday while the Harvard Liberal Union was collecting $120 to help repair the Clinton, Tenn., high school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drives Help Clinton, Protest China Policy | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

Distributed separately by a small group of interested students, the Quemoy-Matsu petition will be sent to the State Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drives Help Clinton, Protest China Policy | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

...Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold the 'islands against Communist aggression in the Pacific, but negotiate if the Communists agree to a cease-fire-was obviously not understood by everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Policy Under Pressure | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...would not fight just to defend Quemoy and Matsu but to stop Communism's heralded advance into the west Pacific-"I cannot dismiss these boastings as mere bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Policy Under Pressure | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Quemoy and Matsu. "What is at stake is not just Quemoy and Matsu, and not just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Nixon, New Magic | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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