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Busy bracing themselves for another siege, the soldiers and civilians of Quemoy wasted little time speculating about the motives behind the seven-day cease-fire that Peking promised the island (TIME, Oct. 13). But others did, in chancelleries around the world. In Washington-which quickly met Peking's cease-fire terms by ordering the Seventh Fleet to stop escorting supply convoys to Quemoy-the prevailing opinion was that the U.S. firmness had paid off (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By steadily increasing the quantity of supplies landed on Quemoy, so this reasoning went, the U.S. and Nationalist China had showed Peking...
Certainly Communist China had not been able to make good on the threat that it hurled at the Quemoy garrison on Aug. 27: "Your water routes to Formosa have been blockaded by us, and you have not the slightest hope of holding the island, being reinforced, or being able to withdraw." If the Reds had not abandoned hope of starving Quemoy out. they presumably would not have given the Nationalists an opportunity to cram supplies into the island unopposed. (By week's end Nationalist convoys had landed an estimated 28.000 tons of supplies on Quemoy-enough to meet minimum...
...Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told the Nationalists, "the day will come when the Americans will abandon you. The clue is already there in the statement made by Dulles on Sept...
...Chinese presented another face. If Washington was prepared to remove "the thorn in the side of peace" so long as force was not employed, what was Washington ready to offer now that force was no longer being used against Quemoy? The Reds challenged Secretary of State Dulles to make good on his implicit offer to persuade Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw at least part of his forces from the offshore islands. Since Chiang and his ministers have repeatedly proclaimed they will do nothing of the kind, and in fact last week sent at least...
...ships withdrawn were the extras sent in after the Communists launched their artillery bombardment of the Quemoy Island complex off the Red China mainland on Aug. 23. The admirals said the ships could be reinstated at a moment's notice...