Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogged fight to head off aggressive world Communism, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has taken many a sling and arrow from behind. Last week Dulles was in the thick of a struggle to defend the beleaguered Chinese Nationalist island of Quemoy-from an attack begun and carried on night and day by Communist guns, backed by Peking's threats to conquer Formosa, and charged with tension by Moscow's bomb-rattling promise to throw the U.S. out of Asia. Yet Dulles had reason to wonder whether he did not have more to fear from his friends than...
...Nationalist China's tough old Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was increasingly impatient...
...Quemoy could never be saved by bigger and better convoys, he argued. Under the hail of Communist fire, the convoys could never be made big enough to keep the island supplied. The only solution, he insisted, was to knock out the Communist guns. He proposed to do it with Nationalist planes. All he asked was U.S. consent...
Chiang argues that the Nationalist air force can do the job alone. He also insists that the decision must come soon. No patriotic Chinese can accept the idea, he says, that the troops and civilians on Quemoy must, for some abstract moral reason, take artillery pounding until they starve to death...
...their own, Nationalist pilots flying U.S.-built F-86 Sabre jets put on a superb show against the Communists' faster, Russian-built MIG-17s last week...