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...join NATO. Said NATO's commanding general in Europe. Lauris Norstad: "There must be absolutely no misunderstanding about the determination of this alliance to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression." Meanwhile, world Communism, by contrast, frustrated in 1958 by Secretary Dulles' firmness in Lebanon, Quemoy and now Berlin, was once more under heavy domestic pressure both in Russia and China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
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...most important cold-war textbook lesson of the year is a step-by-step analysis of last autumn's Quemoy crisis prepared by U.S. military and diplomatic agencies in recent weeks. Its gist...
...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and third member of the panel sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council, argued that the United States should "bring pressure on Chiang Kai-Shek to get a withdrawal of Nationalist troops from Quemoy and Matsu...