Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added C-119 flying boxcars to the tremendous buildup on Formosa, and U.S. military men made the heartening prognosis that vulnerable Quemoy, seven miles from the Communist mainland, could be held, probably indefinitely...
...program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals has there been any criticism that his stand on Quemoy is too weak...
...Quemoy and Matsu. "What is at stake is not just Quemoy and Matsu, and not just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...
...passel of pacifists, neutralists and fellow travelers wanted to denounce U.S. bases in Britain and scuttle NATO. Gaitskell, a middle-of-the-road friend of NATO and the U.S., took the steam out of their drive by moving an "emergency resolution" vowing not to support any war for Quemoy and pledging "no obsequious silence" before U.S. policy if Labor rules...
...every reason to be pleased with his lot. With the Laborites in near disarray, Tory stock was going up, the nation's gold and dollar reserves were at a seven-year high of more than $3 billion, and not even Britain's fear of war over Quemoy had produced much of a public clamor. The man nobody thought could ever be popular had brought his party a long way from the dark days of Suez. Said one happy Tory last week: "We're well on our way to having a Father Figure...