Word: straitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
...feathers grow again. What might be a start appeared last week in some fairly strong talk about how the U.S. would defend islands in Formosa Strait...
...Pescadores are a group of rocky, storm-swept, almost treeless islands lying in Formosa Strait, about 30 miles west of the Formosa coast. China got them back from Japan (along with Formosa) after World War II; the Nationalists hold them now. Of the 64 islands in the Pescadores, only 21 are inhabited; the total area is only about 50 square miles...
...demands were fourfold and explosive: 1) America must withdraw the Seventh Fleet from the Formosa Strait; 2) America must cease arming Japan; 3) America must not be permitted to arm Western Germany; 4) Britain's Labor Party must "arrange a more reasonable foreign policy along such lines." Thus, after ten days of "bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait...