Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary Robert Anderson, J.C.S. Chief Arthur W. Radford and Pacific Commander Felix Stump. They concluded that the Communists might soon be able to carry out their threat of an attack on Formosa. In the eyes of the U.S. strategists, this gave a new shape to the Formosa crisis: Quemoy and the Matsus became incidental; Formosa itself and the U.S. Seventh Fleet were in the eye of danger...
...speculation about their mission ran off on a wrong trail. Press wires around the world clacked out the rumor that Radford and Robertson, two old friends of Chiang Kaishek, had been assigned to give him the bad news that the U.S. would not help him defend the Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement, anxiety and downright hostility in the Nationalist...
DECISION NEEDED ON DEFENSE OF QUEMOY...
...Government must stop beating about the bush on the Quemoy and Matsu issue. We call for full frankness with the American people and our allies. If our military leaders think these islands are expendable and their loss will have no dangerous consequences for our ally [Nationalist China]-the strongest ally we have in Asia-and for our country and the common cause, then let our Government leaders frankly say so and put an end to the uncertainty as to the future of these islands...
Stomping into the conference room in his black coat and jodhpurs, he announced his own plan: withdrawal of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, abandonment of Quemoy and Matsu, a trusteeship for Formosa either under the U.N. or the Colombo powers...