Word: quemoy
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...fleets and task forces have effective control of all the earth's major bodies of water, with missiles below and nuclear bombers overhead. Aboard ships and strung across Pacific outposts are the ready Marines, many of them veterans of Korean fighting and of crisis moves in Quemoy and Lebanon. The crack Seventh Army, massed 150,000 strong in Europe, keeps a cool watch on Berlin and provides the shield for NATO; the Korea-trained 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg, N.C., ready for the next call...
...dozen years U.S. military strategy has been based on the doctrine that nuclear strike power is the chief deterrent to Soviet adventures into war in Europe and elsewhere. But practice has been far from theory. In Quemoy and Matsu, in Lebanon and Korea, the applied weapon was a show of conventional force or the boom of conventional guns. In Washington last week, the Kennedy Administration began moving toward closing the doctrinal gap by placing new emphasis on the U.S.'s conventional-war capability...
...Chinese Nationalists are resigned to a new U.S. attitude toward their heavy troop buildup on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which Kennedy in a TV debate last October pronounced "not strategically defensible, not essential to the defense of Formosa." Middle East Arabs, annoyed that Kennedy put two Jews in his Cabinet and nary an Arab, angrily noted that Kennedy told a campaign audience that U.S. policy aims at ending the state of war between Israel and the Arab states. To Arabs, "ending the state of war" means acquiescing to the permanent existence of Israel, which is something that...
...world. The U.S. could move air support swiftly into Formosa's big, excellent airfields. Chiang Kai-shek's 450,000-man army has been pared down and streamlined. And the 32,000-man navy is constantly drilling and redrilling in methods of supplying Quemoy and Matsu...
During the long autumn of the election campaign. President Eisenhower tried to postpone making decisions on as many controversial problems as possible, to keep them from being distorted by partisan heat (as were Cuba and Quemoy-Matsu). Postponement has its price, and particularly in foreign affairs, as the Eisenhower Administration could see last week when in its last two months in office it tried to confront the serious threat to the stability of the dollar, and the question of nuclear individualism in Western Europe...