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...cease-fire in the troubled area. This statement of policy was partly designed to be read in Europe as evidence of the President's patience and peacefulness. But it was read in Asia as confirmation of the suspicion that the U.S. had abandoned all hope of helping Chiang Kai-shek liberate the mainland; it even seemed to remove from the backs of the Reds the pressure that Formosa as a threat exerts on their military freedom, on their economy and on their political self-confidence...
...however the cease-fire declarations were intended-has moved nearer to the British position that Chiang Kai-shek should be firmly tied down to Formosa and the Reds recognized as the government of China. The failure to fight Korea through to victory, the defeat in Indo-China, the squabble between the Western allies over China policy, are all part of the same retrograde movement...
...forces for the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores," and to show a wholehearted U.S. determination to that end. Commenting that this authority would cover "closely related localities," he singled out for special mention the island of Quemoy, only five miles off the Chinese mainland, which Chiang Kai-shek considers vital to the defense of Formosa. The message carefully avoided any reference to future use of the Chiang-held territory to liberate the mainland, and just as carefully said that the situation was too critical to await appropriate action by the United Nations...
...them to desert. General Huang Chi-chang, ex-Nationalist general who defected to Peking, addressed eight of his former colleagues by name in a recent broadcast: "Do you want to be America's slave, or do you want to be a great man? Do you want to follow Chiang to the death? [Formosa] is going to be liberated. Chiang can flee to South America, but where will you be? World war will not come. The Americans cannot protect you. So have courage. Get in touch with us. We will wait to the last minute. Please come ..." Up to last...
...second-rate radar station. Believing the Tachens expendable, the Pentagon says that it long ago tried to persuade the Nationalists to withdraw from them. Last week, after the fall of Yikiang, the U.S. pulled out its small military advisory group on the Tachens and brought pressure on Chiang to withdraw the garrison (one full division) and some 8,000 civilians...