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...Pescadores shall be restored to the Republic of China." Since the Chinese had ceded Formosa and the Pescadores to Japan in a treaty at the end of the nineteenth century, the formal transfer of these islands had to await to Japanese peace treaty. No major power objected, however, when Chiang Kai-shek's forces occupied the island in 1945 and established the Nationalist government there...
Agreement on the future of Formosa lasted only as long as Chiang Kai-shek held control of the mainland of China. Once the Nationalists were pushed from the mainland in 1949, the Chinese Communists asserted their claims to Formosa and argued that the parties to the Cairo Declaration had intended the island to go the effective rulers of China. A bizarre series of debates followed in which both Russians and Nationalist Chinese accepted the Cairo agreements. Each contended that Formosa belonged to a different China...
...momentousness of the news could be judged by the headlines it displaced. Until the bulletin from Moscow, the big news everywhere was of the U.S. Seventh Fleet steaming to within gun range of Communist China to evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression...
...Molotov effusively corrected himself after referring to the camp of world Communism "headed by the U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled from China"; he said that the U.S. "must withdraw" all its forces from the Formosa Strait before peace can prevail. But when it came to aligning Russia with Peking's unqualified vow to "liberate" Formosa, Molotov was conspicuously noncommital...
...life, and could not understand what was going on. "She's deaf; she cries all the time." he said, and grinned, showing a single yellow tooth in his lower jaw. She was not the only one who found the evacuation of the Tachens hard to understand. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, putting the best face he could on it, proclaimed that the Tachens' troops were being redeployed "to meet the new challenge of international Communist aggression...