Word: strait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa Strait, 1954-55. Dulles felt that the Communists were deterred from attacking the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu by the resolution, framed by himself and passed by the Congress, giving the President a free hand to use U.S. forces against the Communists if they attacked Formosa and related territories. Shepley added: "Dulles has never doubted, incidentally, that Eisenhower would have regarded an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus as an attack on Formosa...
These cultural traits closely resemble those of tribes that lived in Northern Asia several thousand years ago. So Ford thinks that Asians crossed the Bering Strait before the time of Homer and eventually reached Louisiana. They may have conquered the primitives, imposed their religion upon them and forced them to build temples honoring a bird...
...arms race in the Mideast and stirring up anti-Western sentiment in North Africa and Cyprus, while Western nations like Great Britain, smitten by Geneva optimism, have reduced the size of their own armed forces. These developments have engendered for the United States new anxiety reminiscent of the Formosa Strait crisis last spring...
...trick of standing behind the lines and quarterbacking Communist strategy for all Southeast Asia. Old revolutionaries may die, but with revolution to be done they do not just fade away. In Red eyes, there is revolution to be done in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya, and across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia...
...Point Two of the agenda for Geneva, namely: "settlement of certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning...