Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider them only Steppingstones to obtain Formosa -there isn't any question but that the United States would then honor our treaty obligations and stand by our ally, Formosa. To do what Senator Kennedy has suggested, to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance, is not something that would lead to peace." (Earlier at the Waldorf, Kennedy had suggested that the United Nations might take over Quemoy and Matsu as a compromise...
...listen in on the Quemoy-Matsu issue. On Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's spokesmen angrily denounced Kennedy, promised to fight to the military limit for the islands. In Washington the State Department denied that negotiations were in progress (as Kennedy suggested) for removal of 100,000 Nationalist troops from the embattled islands, and privately complained that the debate was seriously jeopardizing foreign policy...
...Algerian nationalists rejected DeGaulle's proposal for negotiations under an Algerian flag of truce, Chanderli stated, because they have not lost the war. War, he said, can be stopped only by mutual settlement or by defeat of one party. "The nationalist strength is increasing every day," he emphasized, and Algeria could not be expected to capitulate merely in order to negotiate with the French...
Last week the three went on trial in Taipei. First witness up was Secretary Liu, who did not testify as the News had promised. He admitted only that he had stayed in Nanking after the fall of the city, and had talked with the wife of former (1939-42) Nationalist Ambassador to Moscow Shao Li-tze, who subsequently defected to the Communists. He promised her that he would carry on Communist propaganda work once he reached Formosa. But he said that when he told Publisher Lei of his plans, Lei warned him that the security was too strict...
Died. Claro Recto, 70, Philippine Senator and violently outspoken nationalist; of a heart attack; in Rome, while on a world tour. Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could...