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...1950s and demanding better for the '60s in broad terms of mission and purpose. ("That." said he. "is the big issue.") But Nixon topped him with a sureness on cold war specifics. Most notable: Kennedy plumped for U.S. withdrawal from the offshore Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu to facilitate an orderly defense of Formosa; Nixon warned quickly that withdrawal would start a "chain reaction": "The Communists." said he, "aren't after Quemoy and Matsu. They are after Formosa." He snapped at "the same kind of woolly thinking that led to disaster for America in Korea...
...Quemoy & Matsu. There were fewer than ten minutes left when a newsman threw Kennedy the question that made headlines: Since he favored withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Nationalist Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, couldn't that be interpreted as appeasement? Answered Kennedy: Administration experts including Secretary of State Herter (as Under Secretary in 1958) have declared Quemoy and Matsu strategically indefensible, so "we should consult with [the Nationalists] and attempt to work out a plan by which the line is drawn at the island of Formosa ... I think it is unwise to take the chance...
...makes him pretty much immune to any suspicion of "softness" toward Communism. Accordingly, he can take the political risks of proposing to "bring the Chinese into the nuclear test ban talks at Geneva," declaring himself "wholly opposed" to any U.S. commitment to defend the Nationalist islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He also has Connecticut Congressman Chester Bowles as his principal foreign policy adviser. U.S. Ambassador to India under Harry Truman, and a conspicuous liberal, Bowles advocates a "two Chinas" policy (i.e., the U.S. should cease to recognize the Nationalist Chinese government as the legitimate government of anything but Formosa), which...
...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
...trouble. With those two orders, and with the publicizing of them at his press conference, President Eisenhower threw still another major force into the struggle: he laid U.S. prestige on the jungle line in Laos almost as surely as he once committed it along the rocky shores of Quemoy-Matsu and upon the hot sands of Lebanon...