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Returning to Washington last week from a grueling, 24,000-mile trip to Formosa, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force KC-135 jet transport to face a battery of cameras and microphones. Question: "Did Chiang Kai-shek agree to a reduction of forces on the offshore islands?" Dulles: "We talked about matters far more fundamental than that. That's just a detail...
...Chiang Declares Mainland Hope...
TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 31--President Chiang Kai-shek spelled out on his 72nd birthday yesterday his hope of regaining the mainland on the wings of an anti-Communist uprising...
Dulles was concerned, too, about the transparent Communist Chinese attempts to drive a wedge between the Nationalists and their U.S. ally. So was Chiang Kaishek, who called reporters into his austere Formosa office for one of his rare formal statements: "If we have to evacuate Quemoy and Matsu under pressure, not only the Chinese people but all people of Asia would lose confidence in America. Anti-Communists living on the mainland would also be disillusioned...
Hours later Dulles announced a typically personal piece of diplomacy: after attending the Pope's funeral in Rome and conferring with Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd in Britain, he would ride his converted Boeing KC-135 jet over the pole, be on Formosa for planning talks with Chiang by midweek. One area of likely discussion: if the Communist cease-fire becomes "dependable," the Nationalists could thin out their forces on Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for a guarantee of increased-but nonatomic-U.S. firepower...