Word: medendorp
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Last week in Grand Rapids, Mrs. Alfred Medendorp heard that her husband, a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, had been killed, along with another U.S. officer, when the Chinese Communists bombarded Quemoy Island, five miles from the Chinese mainland. In 1942 the same woman heard that her first husband had been killed fighting the Japanese on New Guinea. Medendorp was his buddy in the New Guinea campaign. In the deaths of these two friends there was more than coincidence...
...knock. Quemoy was no Pearl Harbor-not the stuff that touches off wars. But it was, perhaps, part of the stuff of which wars are made. It is an island held by the Nationalist Chinese-Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese-and the U.S. had every right to send Medendorp there as part of a military mission advising and aiding Chiang in what he sees clearly-and the U.S. sees unclearly-as a struggle for Asia and for the world...
This struggle has been marked by armistices, truces, ceasefires. When the firing officially ceases, the Reds advance-usually firing. At present there is peace in the Far East. Medendorp was not (officially) killed in action. Nor was a U.S. plane shot down last week by an (official) enemy. Nonetheless, a U.S. plane was shot down by Russian fighters in the Japan Sea, 40 miles (by U.S. count) outside Soviet territorial waters. The U.S. State Department sent Moscow a note calling the attack "wanton and unprovoked." Republican Senate Leader William Knowland said that the U.S. should break off diplomatic relations with...
...Manila Secretary of State Dulles was assuring Filipinos that the U.S. would come to their defense if the Reds attacked them, a proposition that had scarcely been in doubt. What is more dubious and more important is whether the U.S. has a forward policy in the Far East. Was Medendorp simply waiting for an enemy attack? Is that what Chiang Kai-shek is supposed to be doing? Or are U.S. servicemen and U.S. allies waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind about what it will do in Asia...