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...Dulles at planeside, escorted him to Taipei's City Hall for formal signing of the treaty that binds the U.S. to defend Formosa and the Pescadores from attack. Then Dulles was driven out to Grass Mountain, 20 minutes from Taipei, for luncheon with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang...
...Chiang Kai-shek's beleaguered Nationalists made their third retreat in six weeks. First, Yikiang fell in battle, then the Tachens were given up under U.S. protection and pressure. Last week the Nationalists evacuated six-square-mile Nanchi Island, 90 miles south of the fallen Tachens-first taking off 2,000 civilians, then the garrison of some 5,000 troops. The Nanchi withdrawal was a purely Nationalist operation. Chiang's aging P-47s and PBYs (World War II prop planes), aided by Nationalist F-84 and F-86 jets, covered the move. U.S. air-sea rescue teams stood...
...Nationalists, the loss of Nanchi was another bitter cup of tea. Washington denied that any pressure had been put on Chiang to give up Nanchi (aside from the negative pressure of refusing armed assistance in holding it). Only a few days before the withdrawal, a high Nationalist spokesman had announced that Nanchi would be defended in battle and its soldiers would not surrender one inch of territory. Last week, admitting the evacuation, Nationalist Premier O. K. Yui told the Legislative Yuan that Matsu and Quemoy would be held for a "fight to the death...
...Formosa in the center. When the U.S. helps maintain an army of 20 divisions in South Korea and the 300,000 men of the Nationalist Chinese in Formosa, it is contributing mightily to the defense of SEATO. He knew, said Dulles tartly, that some think it would help if Chiang's and Rhee's governments were liquidated. But nothing could be more catastrophic for SEATO itself...
...aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson. "Surely it is clear by now that peace will not be insured until Chiang Kai-shek and his chief lieutenants have been safely stowed away on St. Helena and the U.S. Seventh Fleet sent to guard him there." At week's end, the Labor Party unanimously approved a resolution demanding that the government tell the U.S. "it could not reckon on any military...