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...extend aid to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made some hasty trips to Capitol Hill, agreed to spend $10.5 million or less on Formosa from some leftover ECA funds in return for funds for South Korea, a U.S. ward perilously adjoining the Soviet puppet regime of North Korea. For two days House Republicans railed against the Administration's "do nothing" policy in Asia before 42 of them (out of 169) finally joined in supporting the Administration in an area-Korea-where it really was trying to be positive...
Item: Malcolm Macdonald, Britain's able commissioner general for South-East Asia, reported that he was hopeful of Communist defeat in French Indo-China. Nehru disagreed. He considered Emperor Bao Dai a French puppet...
...more than a month since Mao Tse-tung, boss of Red China, had arrived in Moscow. His talks with Stalin and top Soviet officials were taking longer than the three or four days usually needed for a Stalin puppet to reach agreement with Stalin. Mao and Stalin well knew that the Western world was hoping that they had fallen out. The hope was probably illusory; nevertheless, Mao's prolonged visit might be a sign that all was not well between Soviet Russia and her new Communist neighbor...
...pictures were mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
...civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...