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...intends to go to the aid of the Chinese Nationalists "with fighting men" if Quemoy and Matsu are attacked, "would not wait until the situation was in extremis" before going in. One reason: the Communists have made clear that the offshore islands are but the first step to Formosa. Though the U.S. would obviously not fight over possession of the tiniest islands, "perhaps awash part of the time," it had drawn its no-trespassing line to include the ones that counted...
...Quarters No. i," an eight-bedroom Victorian frame house under an old-fashioned mansard roof. He pondered one of the most serious decisions of his Administration when Secretary Dulles came to the vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from the world's pressing worry...
...Peking itself, in a move clearly designed to lend color to future charges of "aggression" by the U.S., proclaimed that henceforth the limit of its territorial waters would be not three but twelve miles. This would mean, if the Reds could make it stick, that all of Quemoy and Matsu would be in Red China's waters...
Intently studying the moves of the Chicoms (cablese opposite of Chinats), the U.S. State Department fired off three warnings in six days. The message: it would be "highly hazardous" for anyone to believe that a Quemoy-Matsu invasion could be "limited...
...Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with Matsu and a handful of other islets to the north-constitute the only indisputably Chinese soil remaining in Nationalist hands. To hold these largely symbolic specks Chiang Kai-shek has crammed them with 95,000 troops...