Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great trouble is that people do not always understand the United States," said Admiral Arthur Radford, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of the Quemoy crisis last week. "Within my lifetime there have been three occasions when the enemy got the impression from the press we were so divided that we could not get together. The Germans got that impression in World War I, and the Germans and Japanese got it in World War II, and the Communists got it in Korea. They were mistaken...
...deserved the headlines, the President made pleas for peaceful negotiation his first and last points. "Traditionally this country and its Government have always been passionately devoted to peace with honor," said he. Later, he spoke hopefully of the meetings in Warsaw, where U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam was preparing for Quemoy negotiations with Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan this week. If the bilateral talks fail, said Eisenhower, "there is still the hope that the United Nations could exert a peaceful influence...
...would never be a party to any turnover of Quemoy and Matsu to the Chinese Communists," a top State Department official told a TIME correspondent last week. "But short of that, there are steps that would be taken to remove the 'thorn in the side of peace,' as the President mentioned-removing the provocations." Possible basis for discussion : neutralization of Quemoy and Matsu (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...world has got back into the Munich mood, and the American people too. That's the big issue-whether the world is aroused enough to take a stand. That's what the Chinese and Soviets are taking advantage of. That's the big issue, not Quemoy and Matsu. In the last four years there has been a very marked growth in the quality of appeasement, the idea of not getting involved in other people's fights. It is almost true that the U.S. is the only nation in the world today that is not in that...
...Nationalist soldiers dug into the sandy soil of Quemoy Island, it was a grim week. While U.S. destroyers watched helplessly from outside the three-mile limit, Communist guns raked Que-moy's yellow beaches, effectively preventing Nationalist transports from replenishing the island's dwindling stocks of food, ammunition and medicine. Over the horizon, almost lost in the haze covering Formosa Strait, prowled Task Force 77 of the Seventh Fleet-the Sunday punch which the U.S. was holding back as long as the Communists refrained from all-out attack...