Word: retreatants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many bitter years since Yalta, it seems there are those who still do not fully realize that each successful Communist aggression breeds another. If the Chinese Communist regime seizes the smaller Nationalist isles, either by invasion or negotiated retreat, its next step will be Formosa, then all Southeast Asia, then India...
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...
...buried himself deeply in his work and in his reading. Often in the letters of the period he would write of a profound loneliness: "Even the solitude of a desert is companionship when compared to the loneliness of a city. The modern hermit carries all within him--his retreat is the populous wilderness of this world...
Quemoy: "The basic issue, as we see it, is to avoid retreat in the face of force...
...allies, other than Nationalist China, had no commitment to help the U.S. in the Formosa area, but "I believe that most of them would be appalled if the U.S. were spinelessly to retreat before the threat of Sino-Soviet armed aggression...