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...White House to see the President. Then the President sent Nixon a wire noting that 1) although basic foreign policies ought to be bipartisan, 2) it was perfectly O.K. to reply to the Democrats on foreign policy's "operation." Said Ike: QUESTIONS AND CRITICISMS HAVE INVOLVED LEBANON . . . QUEMOY AND MATSU, ETC. THESE ACTIONS, WHEN CRITICIZED, SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY OUR SIDE. NO ONE CAN DO THIS MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN YOU. ALL THE BEST TO YOU. D.D.E...
...labor-organized bean-and-wiener feed ($1 a plate) in Milwaukee Auditorium, said: "The tragedy of the Eisenhower Administration is that its only weapons seem to be platitudes or paratroops. And this seems to be true whether the situation is Little Rock or Lebanon, South America or Quemoy...
...defensive to the offensive, there's nothing to prevent Communism from becoming the world's victor." Then, flying to Formosa, Dr. Lin stood on Chinese soil for the first time in 14 years, said there should be no cut in the size of the garrisons on beleaguered Quemoy and Matsu...
...have made no secret of the fact that in the past the U.S. has been inclined to feel that the troops [on Quemoy and Matsu] were excessive for the needs of the situation," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance...
Dulles was concerned, too, about the transparent Communist Chinese attempts to drive a wedge between the Nationalists and their U.S. ally. So was Chiang Kaishek, who called reporters into his austere Formosa office for one of his rare formal statements: "If we have to evacuate Quemoy and Matsu under pressure, not only the Chinese people but all people of Asia would lose confidence in America. Anti-Communists living on the mainland would also be disillusioned...