Word: strait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last man on earth thinks things over; sometimes he's happy, sometimes he's blue (5,000 words). A little girl discovers that there is more fun in a poor but jolly household than in a rich but strait-laced one (6,000 words). But there is at least one magnificent exception, The First Face, a beautifully conceived and brilliantly told epiphany of a woman and her newborn son. And-perhaps there is a moral here-it is only 1,200 words long...
Dinner Debate. In Bangkok, Eden tackled Dulles over a late dinner. He urged that the U.S. announce, publicly and unilaterally, that it has no interests in Quemoy and Matsu. This would force a Nationalist evacuation, put the wide Formosa Strait between the contestants, effect a de facto ceasefire, and kill the military potential of the Formosa forces. Dulles indicated that if the Reds would talk reasonably, he might be willing to discuss the coastal islands, but that an attack on Formosa would mean war. With that Eden had to be content...
...their own people . . . [If they] should prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile negotiations and practical agreements between the U.S. and the new Russia." Meanwhile, international Communism's aggressive designs must be thwarted. The Secretary of State explained why, to do so in the Formosa Strait, the U.S. was required to advance its defensive perimeter toward the China mainland. "The U.S. has no commitment and no purpose to defend the coastal islands as such. I repeat, as such...
...Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression that the Chinese Communists wished to spread) quickly faded with the Moscow announcements, and the evacuation went off without anyone's being hurt...
...Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled from China"; he said that the U.S. "must withdraw" all its forces from the Formosa Strait before peace can prevail. But when it came to aligning Russia with Peking's unqualified vow to "liberate" Formosa, Molotov was conspicuously noncommital...