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Once the Communists turned from their Quemoy bombardment guns to the bargaining table, the President said, the U.S. would be ready and willing to negotiate toward "a solution that could be acceptable to all parties concerned, including, of course, our ally, the Republic of China...
Confusion Compounded. Early in the week intelligence reports to the vacation White House in Newport, R.I. convinced the President that it was time to make the U.S. position unmistakably clear. U.S. Navy destroyers were escorting Nationalist supply ships to the three-mile limit off Quemoy, but the Nationalists were being clobbered on the beaches (see FOREIGN NEWS) by Communist artillery. It was not impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over...
...confusion was compounded by an erroneous report in the New York Times that the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific forces, Admiral Harry D. Felt, had questioned the Quemoy policy for such unlikely reasons as an alleged ammunition shortage that would inspire, the story said, the fleet to early use of nuclear warheads. (The fact was that Felt cabled heavy support for the policy shortly after he was first asked to comment three weeks ago, felt his force suitable to the job.) The President's mail reflected public apprehension, and he decided to fight the confusion with his major...
...deserved the headlines, the President made pleas for peaceful negotiation his first and last points. "Traditionally this country and its Government have always been passionately devoted to peace with honor," said he. Later, he spoke hopefully of the meetings in Warsaw, where U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam was preparing for Quemoy negotiations with Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan this week. If the bilateral talks fail, said Eisenhower, "there is still the hope that the United Nations could exert a peaceful influence...
...would never be a party to any turnover of Quemoy and Matsu to the Chinese Communists," a top State Department official told a TIME correspondent last week. "But short of that, there are steps that would be taken to remove the 'thorn in the side of peace,' as the President mentioned-removing the provocations." Possible basis for discussion : neutralization of Quemoy and Matsu (see FOREIGN NEWS...