Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think it of significance, too, that at the end of World War II, the French interned Chinese Nationalist troops in Indo-China and placed them on a small island off the coast . . . and were still holding them when I was in Indo-China. I was amazed to learn . . . our allies in World War II should have been interned in order to appease the Chinese Reds, who did not want these troops returned to Formosa ... It is all important to the security of the U.S. that the Associated States of Indo-China remain among the free nations of the world...
...month after endless month, the cause of freedom had been on the retreat in the Far East. There was truce without victory in Korea, then armistice with defeat in Indo-China. Flushed with success, the Chinese Communists began to reach out for more, boldly attacking Nationalist-held stepping-stone islands between the China mainland and For mosa. Meanwhile, the diplomatic offensive for the recognition of Red China drew more and more support from certain U.S. allies. Last week the U.S. completed a diplomatic counterthrust...
...reception room on the fifth floor of the State Department building in Washington, the U.S. Secretary of State and Nationalist China's Foreign Minister signed a mutual-defense treaty. When the ceremony was over, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles shook the hand of Foreign Minister George K.C. (for Kung-Chao) Yeh, and uttered a most significant foreign-policy pronouncement. Said Dulles: "It is my hope that the signing of this defense treaty will put to rest once and for all rumors and reports that the U.S. will in any manner agree to the abandonment of Formosa...
...Nationalist China, the treaty pledged that each will regard an attack on the other's territory in the West Pacific as "dangerous to its own peace and safety." For the Chinese Communist regime, it was a clear, unequivocal warning that an attack on Nationalistheld Formosa or the Pescadores will bring quick response by U.S. forces. Did it mean that a Communist attack on Formosa would touch off U.S. retaliation on the mainland of China? Said Secretary Dulles: "That would be a probable result...
...sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...