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...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...
...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...