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...Taipei the Communist proposal hit a solid wall. After the U.S. said it would confer only if the Nationalists participated, Chiang Kai-shek's government immediately and firmly took the position that it "will reject any proposal to sit at the same table with representatives...
...Robertson went into conference with U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin. The visitors lunched at the home of Major General William Chase, chief of the U.S. military assistance group on Formosa, then moved into their quarters in the luxurious guesthouse at Shihlin, only two minutes through the trees from the Chiang house. At Madame Chiang's invitation, they stayed there instead of at the usual lodgings for military and diplomatic visitors...
With this grim analysis John Foster Dulles flew to Augusta last week to brief President Eisenhower. When their conferences were over, the President personally approved sending Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford to Formosa with a specific, two-point mission: 1) to evaluate, in consultation with Chiang and Nationalist military leaders, the Communists' intentions; and 2) to consider whether it is necessary to reinforce the Formosa garrison with more U.S. strength, chiefly Air Force fighter and Army anti-aircraft units...
...Robertson and Radford flew toward the Orient, speculation about their mission ran off on a wrong trail. Press wires around the world clacked out the rumor that Radford and Robertson, two old friends of Chiang Kaishek, had been assigned to give him the bad news that the U.S. would not help him defend the Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement...
...underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour of the U.S. last year, he told everyone from President Eisenhower on down that he believes "in self-help and development...