Word: tachen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only in one dispatch--reporting the evacuation of Halfway to Heaven, a small village on North Tachen Island--does Joseph Alsop's prose ring true. Elsewhere, even in such perfectly reasonable injunctions as "Great national problems which are not honestly presented to the nation-will either be badly solved; or they will simply be left unsolved until they grow rancid by over-keeping and make a public stink," the Alsopian manner renders Alsopian reason repulsive. The columnists' work is clearly that of dedicated and respectable, if unattractive vision of the truth. But the tone of the pursuers, the positive arrogance...
...Korea, offered the option, 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war (out of 20,000) refused to return to their homes and families in Red China, chose Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
Precision Weapons. The Communists, he continued, persistently belittle U.S. resolution, holding up the Korean truce, the Indo-China settlement and the evacuation of the Tachen Islands as evidences of U.S. weakness. "In such ways Chinese Communist propaganda portrays the U.S. as being merely a paper tiger . . . We must always remember that the free nations of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia will quickly lose their freedom if they think that our love of peace means peace at any price. We must, if occasion offers, make it clear that we are prepared to stand firm and, if necessary, meet hostile force...
...those who had begun to doubt U.S. capabilities since the Tachen evacuation, Dulles listed matter-of-factly the forces which the U.S. maintains in the Western Pacific-a Navy of 400 ships and 350,000 men, Army forces totaling five divisions and about 300,000 men, an air force of 30 squadrons. Taking into account the power of modern weapons, said Dulles, it is a striking force substantially bigger than that deployed by the U.S. at the height of the war with Japan...
...simple expression of the obvious touched off extraordinary reactions. Asian anti-Communists were notably cheered by Dulles' speech. The anti-Communist Hong Kong newspaper, Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that Dulles brought "joy and comfort." Other Asian voices recalled the Korean truce, the Indo-China truce and the Tachen Islands evacuation, and said that Dulles' announcement on the offshore islands between Formosa and the mainland indicated that the U.S. had finally made up its mind to take a stand. The Dulles sentence that most impressed Asians: "If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their Western...