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Britain's Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, tried in vain to get into Mossadeq's redoubt. He had another note to deliver from the Foreign Office in London. The best he could do was to leave it at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. His Majesty's government insisted that the Shah's government must not unilaterally break its 1933 contract with Anglo-Iranian. London wanted "negotiation to the satisfaction of all concerned," proposed sending a mission to Teheran at once. London said it would bring up the issue before the International Court of Justice at The Hague...
Besides Formosa, Nationalist China has another beleaguered island redoubt. Oyster-shaped, about twice the size of New Jersey, with 3,000,000 inhabitants, Hainan Island lies in the South China Sea, only 15 miles from the Red mainland. The Japanese used it as a training ground and springboard for their conquest of Indo-China, Malaya and Singapore. From Hainan last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder reported...
Signs of Maturity. Protected by the 100-mile-wide Strait of Formosa, separating them from the Communists on the mainland, the Nationalists seem to have a good chance of successfully defending their island redoubt against an assault-providing Formosa's native population does not rise against them. While General Sun is licking Formosa's military defenses into shape, Governor Wu is busy trying to win the loyalty of Formosa's 6,500,000 people, most of whom dislike the Chinese, Nationalist or Communist. To win friends among Formosa's hard-working peasants, Wu is pressing...
...Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist irregulars would be established in the rugged Tibetan border province of Sikang; 3) the Nationalist capital would move to Taipei on the island redoubt of Formosa...
...Greatest Threat. Chiang would try to fight on from Formosa, though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic island. Actually, Formosa (the size of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, pop. 7,200,000) could be a strong redoubt; it is one of Asia's most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...