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Reports that two or more Communist submarines are in the Formosa Strait ought not to precipitate any drastic war-like measures by the Eisenhower Administration, Daniel S. Cheever, lecturer on Government, said last night...
...square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...
...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...
...icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier ice eased the passage; even...