Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back of Chiang as the head of the government." ¶Implied that the U.S. was no longer holding out for a formal cease-fire agreement, would be willing to negotiate Chiang's forces out of Quemoy if the Communists would just stop shooting. ¶Denied Chiang's statement that the U.S. had approved his Quemoy buildup, countered flatly that the U.S. "did not attempt to veto it"-but nonetheless had thought the move unwise (a military point seriously disputed by the Pentagon, which thought Chiang's buildup none too large to resist invasion...
Dulles went on to his most provocative statement: "If there were a cease-fire in the area which seemed to be reasonably dependable, I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a ceasefire, it would be our judgment, military judgment, even, that it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Was there, then, a possibility of important changes in U.S. policy if there was some "give" on the Communist side? Answered Dulles...
...none other than President Eisenhower, at his own press conference, repeated Dulles' key criticism of Chiang's Quemoy buildup. Said Ike: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there." Ike's strongest press-conference statement...
...week's end the President, perhaps more aware of the slippage that misplaced words could wreak, let loose what amounted to a statement of U.S. principles on Quemoy. The President's vehicle: a letter to Democratic Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Theodore...
Eisenhower, in answer to a letter from Senator Theodore F. Green, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, deplored Senator Green's statement that the American people would not support military action to save the islands. If the Red Chinese thought we weren't just one big militaristic team, the President said, they would be more likely to precipitate...