Word: straitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Placing in effect an immediate cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. ¶ Immediately releasing the eleven U.S. airmen and the American civilians whom it unjustly holds...
...York Herald Tribune or the Washington Post and Times Herald, all of whom supported the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, shown any 'devotion' to this Administration's program on the big questions of 'loyalty' at home or war in the Formosa Strait? "If the country has what the Democrats call a one-party press, the Republicans have been cheated, for they have not even been able to count on the unfailing support of David Lawrence, and in Westbrook Pegler's book Eisenhower has almost (but not quite) replaced Roosevelt as the leading...
...promptly moved 40 MIGs onto it. Far to the south, Nationalists detected another base abuilding near Swatow, which may not be complete for perhaps six months. But when it is, it will provide Communist jet air cover, not only for Quemoy and Matsu, but over the whole Formosa Strait. Then it would not be the offshore islands which were in danger; it would be Formosa itself...
...Crystal Ball. That was where the matter stood at midweek when 217 reporters crowded into the President's news conference. What did Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower have to say about the situation in the Formosa Strait...
...week's end, the Aruba's 42-man crew issued a new deadline: they would not man the ship beyond the Nicobar Islands at the entrance to the Malacca Strait. Sadly, the Re-Be Co. sent a message to Peking through its Hong Kong agents. The Far East Enterprising Co. (HK) Ltd. Its gist: the Aruba could go no farther; if the Reds want their jet fuel, they will have to come...