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Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to wrest the China mainland from the Communists. Dulles said Chiang's return "is a highly hypothetical matter...
...placing ourselves within gun range of Communist China, which is certain to cause an incident that will plunge us into another war. I don't recall the Lord giving us the power to police a family fight between Communist China and the political corpse, Chiang Kaishek...
...immediate cease-fire in the Quemoy area and renunciation by Peking of the use of force in the Formosa Strait. Wang countered with a demand for immediate withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist troops garrisoning the Quemoy and Matsu Islands and an end to U.S. military support of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Blunter yet was the Nationalists' unexplained canceling of the visa of NBC Correspondent James Robinson while he was in the U.S. for a news program. Apparent reason: following Robinson's filmed TV interview in May with Chiang Kaishek. NBC angered the Generalissimo by noting he had ducked such questions as what would happen to his government if the U.S. recognized Red China...
...Administration's blindness to reality that is primarily responsible for our dilemma in the Far East. Chiang rules Formosa and Mao, the mainland. Americans and Allies would probably agree to defend Taiwan. Aside from the Kuomintang exiles, seven million Formosan natives and Chinese refugees, who fled from the despotism of the Communist government, deserve to be protected from conquest and annexation. Drawing the line, however, over two tiny outposts at swimming distance from mainland China is tragically inane. American diplomats should pressure Chiang to withdraw his coastal forces to Formosa and concede to the Communists...