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...week's end, he was the only newsman in Washington who had uncovered the real and urgent reason for the sudden Robertson-Radford trip, reported in NATIONAL AFFAIRS' Grim Deeds...
...Shape. In Washington the new intelligence was studied carefully by Secretary of State Dulles, Assistant Secretary Walter Robertson, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Anderson, J.C.S. Chief Arthur W. Radford and Pacific Commander Felix Stump. They concluded that the Communists might soon be able to carry out their threat of an attack on Formosa. In the eyes of the U.S. strategists, this gave a new shape to the Formosa crisis: Quemoy and the Matsus became incidental; Formosa itself and the U.S. Seventh Fleet were in the eye of danger...
With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...
...Robertson and Radford flew toward the Orient, speculation about their mission ran off on a wrong trail. Press wires around the world clacked out the rumor that Radford and Robertson, two old friends of Chiang Kaishek, had been assigned to give him the bad news that the U.S. would not help him defend the Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement...
...Sudden Relaxation. Into that anxious atmosphere one day this week flew the silver, white and blue U.S. transport carrying Radford and Robertson. Their plane touched down at Taipei airport at precisely the scheduled hour of 11 a.m.. thereby satisfying Admiral Radford's passion for on-the-second arrivals. It was a sweet and winy morning, and Chinese and American greeters basked in the sunshine as the big plane landed. A Nationalist military band and a guard of honor stood by to salute the visitors. Heading the welcomers was Nationalist Foreign Minister Yeh, whose mood was not nearly...