Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quemoy and Matsu can be left to Chiang's forces, with the U.S. maintaining a static defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. U.S. land-based and carrier air power would fend off Red bombing attacks on Formosa, might possibly pursue the attackers to their bases. This alternative accepts the loss of Matsu and Quemoy...
...could limit itself to local tactical action aimed at stopping the invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. Both Quemoy and Matsu lie so close offshore that U.S. naval and air operations would be severely restricted in effectiveness. Fleets of Red junks assembled and launched by night might unload their troops before U.S. sea and air forces could stop them. Even in the face of this sort of U.S. intervention, the Communists might...
...situation in which Canada might conceivably remain neutral, Pearson said, would be a fight by the U.S. to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He said: "I do not consider a conflict . . . for the possession of these Chinese coastal islands [to be] one requiring any Canadian intervention...
...make his policy more acceptable to the opposition, the strategy was a failure. Tory Foreign Affairs Critic John Diefenbaker sprang up as soon as Pearson finished and charged that the minister's original speech had been "watered down." Diefenbaker rapped Pearson for creating the impression that defense of Quemoy and Matsu would be a "bush fire" of no concern to Canada. Said he: "It is but fantasy to say that what might happen over there would not become an all-embracing conflict...
Social Credit Leader Solon Low first denounced Coldwell's attack as "a speech that will give comfort to the enemy." Then he turned back to the key question of Quemoy and Matsu. "They are important to Red China only as a jumping-off place for an attack on Formosa," Low said. "The U.S. should be given moral support . . . because of the importance of Formosa for the defense of the free people of southeastern Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands...