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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...
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...
...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...