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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busy bracing themselves for another siege, the soldiers and civilians of Quemoy wasted little time speculating about the motives behind the seven-day cease-fire that Peking promised the island (TIME, Oct. 13). But others did, in chancelleries around the world. In Washington-which quickly met Peking's cease-fire terms by ordering the Seventh Fleet to stop escorting supply convoys to Quemoy-the prevailing opinion was that the U.S. firmness had paid off (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By steadily increasing the quantity of supplies landed on Quemoy, so this reasoning went, the U.S. and Nationalist China had showed Peking...
...Chinese." Yet more was obviously involved than a Red retreat. Peking was eager to exploit a wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told...
...Chinese presented another face. If Washington was prepared to remove "the thorn in the side of peace" so long as force was not employed, what was Washington ready to offer now that force was no longer being used against Quemoy? The Reds challenged Secretary of State Dulles to make good on his implicit offer to persuade Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw at least part of his forces from the offshore islands. Since Chiang and his ministers have repeatedly proclaimed they will do nothing of the kind, and in fact last week sent at least...
...afternoons and evenings (he reads about 200 scripts a year), Stevens still finds time to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee. He is an ardent Adlai Stevenson backer and gives him a good chance to win the 1960 nomination. But if he should be offered a Washington job, Stevens is certain he will turn it down: "In Washington you have to work your tail off all the time. You don't even dare take a drink down there...
...since 1925, when Pittsburgh did it to Washington, had a team come off the floor to win after losing three of the first four series games. Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly...