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...President of the U.S. was plainly worn. After weeks of burning crisis in the Middle East, the Far East was warming up, and old familiar crisis words-Que-moy, Matsu-were in the headlines. At home, the drive to give Negroes their lawful rights in public schools needed only a spark to start fire. Dwight Eisenhower, wearied by months of foreign policy, domestic economy, legislative and legal problems, was not at his best...
...press conference the President naturally was asked about Communist China's invasion threats against Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsu. And in that sequence he was asked about the discretion of U.S. field commanders in using nuclear weapons. The President hesitated, stumbled, labored his way through 120 rambling words, finally ended by saying: "I would have to make certain. My memory is not quite that good this morning...
Four years ago, when Communist China poured shout and shell on the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower came to a decision never publicly announced: U.S. force would be used to help fight off invasion of Quemoy and Matsu by Red China. Last week, with shout and shell raining again (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. saw Quemoy and Matsu as being of even greater importance than in 1954. Said the President at press conference: the Nationalists now have one-third of their strength deployed on the offshore islands, and loss of that strength would lay Formosa...
...China's Mao, meeting in Peking in early August, were accompanied by their defense ministers-a fact that led to a rush of speculation. Gist of the rumors: Communist China was again preparing to attack Formosa or the Nationalist-held offshore island chains of Quemoy and Matsu. Later events gave some substance to the speculation: Communist MIG-17s and Nationalist F-86s and F-845 began tangling more often above Formosa Strait; Communist gunners began to pound the islands, last week put down thousands of shells in two hours of the heaviest bombardment that Quemoy has ever taken...
Last week U.S. Secretary of State Dulles took official notice of the speculation-and its possible substance. U.S. policy, he made clear, has not changed since 1955, when Communist China made its most threatening passes at Quemoy and Matsu. U.S. firmness eased that crisis-and Dulles was still being firm. "We are indeed disturbed by the evidence of Chinese Communist buildup," said he. "I think it would be highly hazardous for anyone to assume that if the Chinese Communists were to attack and seek to conquer these islands, that that could be a limited operation. It would, I fear, constitute...