Word: taiwan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Mao's inspired athletes claimed seven world records in sports ranging from swimming to weight lifting. One rowing group became so incensed by "U.S. imperialist aggression against our territory of Taiwan" that it bettered the winning time of the U.S. pair-oared shell with cox in the 1956 Olympics, even though the Red rowers had trained only a month over the 2,000-meter distance...
...Administration, Lattimore asserted, is not even considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
...stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...
...With reference to China, Christians should urge reconsideration by our Government of its policy in regard to the People's Republic of China. While the rights of the people of Taiwan and of Korea should be safeguarded, steps should be taken toward the inclusion of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations and for its recognition by our Government. Such recognition does not imply approval...
Cherington was also skeptical of Fairbank's hope that democracy might be extended in Taiwan...