Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past fortnight Nationalist and U.S. intelligence sources have detected signs of two additional new airfields being started on the Fukien coast-near Amoy, the mainland port opposite Quemoy. They bring to five the total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China...
With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...
...urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement, anxiety and downright hostility in the Nationalist camp...
...plane touched down at Taipei airport at precisely the scheduled hour of 11 a.m.. thereby satisfying Admiral Radford's passion for on-the-second arrivals. It was a sweet and winy morning, and Chinese and American greeters basked in the sunshine as the big plane landed. A Nationalist military band and a guard of honor stood by to salute the visitors. Heading the welcomers was Nationalist Foreign Minister Yeh, whose mood was not nearly as warm as his smile...
...wore on, the tense anxiety that had preceded the arrival of Radford and Robertson eased away. After several hours of conferences, which were expected to extend into several days, a Chinese Nationalist communiqué glowed that "the conversation was conducted in an atmosphere of great harmony." Taipei officialdom dropped the hostile mood induced by false interpretation of the Radford-Robertson mission. The Communists had shifted the Formosa crisis, but had not achieved any sharp break in relations between the U.S. and the Chinese Nationalists...