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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith proposed in effect that the U.S. send troops to occupy the prosperous 235-mile-long island. Strategically the most important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see...
Could Formosa be held? The answer seemed to be that it could, and with a relatively small force. Ninety miles of water lie between Formosa and the mainland. Mao Tse-tung has no navy, no air power, no amphibious forces. Its occupation would demonstrate to all of Asia the determination...
The Cairo Conference (1943) promised Formosa to China; Chinese Communists could argue that Formosa, and its 6,400,000 people, belong to China. Instead of reassuring Asiatics, the sending of U.S. troops might provoke more enmity than friendliness for Western democracy; Asiatics might look upon it as a demonstration of...
General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most...
The word "face" loomed large in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's week, and his own face showed that he wasn't happy about it.