Word: westerners
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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 map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
...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 white imperialism...
...final touches and a stamp of approval on "strategic concepts for the integrated defense of the North Atlantic area." This was necessary to get the first $1 billion of U.S. military aid rolling; in approving the military assistance program for the U.S.'s allies, Congress had stipulated that Western Europe's defense must be certified feasible by the military chiefs before any funds could be expended...
...spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side of the English Channel...
...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...