Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repairing Slippage. Despite the headline impact of the new emphasis, U.S. policy in the formal sense remained unchanged. The U.S. would continue to resist Communist expansion by force or threat of force at Quemoy. The U.S. would continue to seek to negotiate a dependable cease-fire with the Red Chinese at Warsaw. Given that, the U.S. might seek to persuade Chiang to withdraw sizable Nationalist contingents from Quemoy-but leaving Quemoy in Nationalist hands-as a means of removing what the President calls "a thorn in the side of peace...
...week's end the President, perhaps more aware of the slippage that misplaced words could wreak, let loose what amounted to a statement of U.S. principles on Quemoy. The President's vehicle: a letter to Democratic Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Theodore...
Francis Green, 91, who had warned the President that he might not get national support if it came to war on Quemoy. Ike's points...
...would not fight just to defend Quemoy and Matsu but to stop Communism's heralded advance into the west Pacific-"I cannot dismiss these boastings as mere bluff...
Shining through the week's war of words about Quemoy was the sharp military fact that the fighting was going well for the Chinese Nationalists. U.S.-supported, U.S.-trained and U.S.-equipped, the Nationalists racked up dazzling jet victories, all but solved Quemoy's tricky sea-air supply problem, and sent morale soaring, as Communist pilots and gunners showed unexpected ineptness and inexperience. During the week...