Word: ryukyus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ryukyu and Bonin Island chains as "essential links" in the strategic defense of the whole Pacific area, intends to keep control of them "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." Under a defense system that accents air power and mobility, the Ryukyus and Bonins will be strong U.S. air and naval outposts in a defensive line that stretches along the China coast from Japan to the Philippines...
Titles: In his new three-hat job, Clark becomes Supreme Commander of the United Nations Command, which means leadership of the multi-national army in Korea; head of the U.S. Far East Command, covering all U.S. forces - land, sea and air- in Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea; and chief of the U.S. Security Forces in Japan itself...
...Acheson, in a speech to the National Press Club, said that the U.S. "defensive perimeter runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus ... to the Philippine Islands." Not included: Formosa...
...before the Manchu Emperor. Thus the envoys of all the world acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese sovereign. "Repugnant . . . degrading . . . inexpedient," the Britons had decided, "required for the obvious purpose of reducing us to a level with missions from Corea and the Lew-chew islands [i.e., Korea and the Ryukyus, including Okinawa] . . . should be refused...