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Other Cold War Resolutions make similar grants of authority. The Formosa Resolution of 1955, for example, still gives the President the legal right to go to war with Communist China in defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Progressive though they are, the repeals advocated by Mathias demonstrate the negative character of Congressional participation in foreign affairs...
...civil war, the bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary, Suez, South Arabia, Cyprus, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Angola, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Viet Nam, and the third violent clash between Israel and the Arabs...
8.Use some foreigners against others, to secure Chinese ends. Thus Chiang Kai-shek has cultivated American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...
Mainland Sabotage. Nonetheless, Chiang stands ready for any eventuality. The country's 600,000-man army is well trained and well equipped, and Chiang keeps 80,000 troops poised and battle-ready on Taiwan's sister islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which are still bombarded now and then by Communist shore batteries. His high-flying U-2s regularly overfly the mainland taking pictures of Red China's defenses. Nationalist agents still cross the Strait of Taiwan to infiltrate the mainland. Chiang's government claims that 40 anti-Communist incidents occurred on the mainland between March...
...Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon and Viet Cong guerrillas waiting in ambush shot him as he tried to escape...