Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a crashing of heavy artillery and a booming of loudspeakers, China's Reds last week reopened their attack on Quemoy, the Nationalist island which thrusts like a dagger toward the Communist mainland seven miles away. After a few days of silence, Red guns had resumed their bombardment. Hour after hour the loudspeakers screamed across the sea to the dug-in Nationalists that the Reds would take Quemoy by Oct. 15. In Peking, Defense Minister General Peng Teh-huai ordered his troops to "be constantly prepared for combat" and promised, "We shall assuredly free Formosa from the yoke...
...Quemoy so important? What's been going on there? Last week, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne went to Quemoy, returned to Hong Kong and cabled...
...Congress scarcely anyone else did either. Subsequently, according to Peking radio, one speaker fierily demanded the "ultimate" liberation of Formosa; a few days before, however, the word had been "immediate." For whatever dark reasons, China's Red rulers were for the moment not promising quick victory. Perhaps at Quemoy they had found out what they wanted to know about the U.S. intention to protect Formosa...
Rueful Admission. Flying home from the Manila Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles spent three hours with Chiang in Taipei. Dulles promised moral support, but would not publicly say whether the U.S. commitment to defend Formosa and the adjoining Pescadores also covers Quemoy. At week's end, Major General William C. Chase, head of the U.S. military mission to Formosa, was in Quemoy on an inspection trip...
...assured an audience in Australia, when he stopped off for a little visit, that the Communists had given China the most honest government in its history (a matter of 5,000 years or more). His words came clearly, if a little oddly, over the sound of Communist artillery hammering Quemoy and the howls of Red Chinese leaders for the "liberation" of Formosa...