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...ready to go to war over Quemoy and Matsu, sitting ducks for the Commies, and strategically zero in the defense of Formosa. We should throw away American lives for these little rocks off the Red Chinese coast...
...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, in a letter to President Eisenhower, issued a virtual ultimatum that the U.S. must withdraw its forces from Formosa Strait, abandon not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa as well-or be faced by the combined might of Russia and Red China...
Like the old pros they were, both men opened aggressively. Beam demanded an immediate cease-fire in the Quemoy area and renunciation by Peking of the use of force in the Formosa Strait. Wang countered with a demand for immediate withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist troops garrisoning the Quemoy and Matsu Islands and an end to U.S. military support of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...change in the status of the offshore islands, Chinese Nationalist leaders regarded the Warsaw talks with undisguised alarm and despondency. In Taipei Nationalist Premier Chen Cheng implicitly warned the U.S. that his country would not be a party to any such bargain. Said Chen: "We will defend Quemoy, Matsu and all the other islands in our hands to the very last...
...hopeful that a majority of U.N. members could be lined up behind a resolution condemning force in realizing territorial ambitions. (As Dulles was unhappily aware, the chances that he could win an explicit U.N. endorsement of the U.S. backing of Nationalist claims to Quemoy and Matsu were slim indeed.) As for the Chinese Communists, there were indications that they. too. would not mind seeing the crisis discussed in the U.N.. where they could assert their claim to big-power status...