Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his 30-minute radio-television report on Asia last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did not once mention the words that commentators and headline-writers were straining to hear: Quemoy and Matsu. But while he left open the specific question of U.S. defense of these little Nationalist-held islands off Red China's coast, Dulles outlined a general principle of U.S. Asian policy of tremendous implication. The U.S. fully intends to protect the free nations of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific against Communist attack, and is well aware that it may have...
...shadow fell over his substantial achievement. By definition no plan for anti-Communism can ever be put in motion unless Communist aggression is halted where it is on the military march. Dulles had good reasons for refusing to state categorically whether the U.S. would or would not defend the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, but his refusal plunged the Nationalists into gloom and considerably dimmed the bright new hopes he had kindled in the rest of Asia...
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has often stood for patience and moderation as well as firmness in the Far East, even without the support of some of his chief advisers and against the pressures of those who hold that the United States could and should recapture the China mainland for the Chinese Nationalist Government. But [we] are deeply troubled by Mr. Dulles' speech in which he warned that under certain circumstances the U.S. would employ military force to defend Quemoy and Matsu...
...recognize that there may be an intentional ambiguity in U.S. policy with respect to these islands. The argument is that it is politically advantageous to keep Peiping guessing and politically necessary to maintain the morale of the Chinese Nationalists and to placate their extreme American supporters. We believe, nevertheless, that keeping our allies and worldwide public opinion guessing and fearful of our intentions is too great a price to pay for this doubtful political advantage. The strength of the free world is based upon genuine cooperation and mutual trust among the free nations, not upon our ability to confuse...
Dinner Debate. In Bangkok, Eden tackled Dulles over a late dinner. He urged that the U.S. announce, publicly and unilaterally, that it has no interests in Quemoy and Matsu. This would force a Nationalist evacuation, put the wide Formosa Strait between the contestants, effect a de facto ceasefire, and kill the military potential of the Formosa forces. Dulles indicated that if the Reds would talk reasonably, he might be willing to discuss the coastal islands, but that an attack on Formosa would mean war. With that Eden had to be content...