Word: quemoy
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...certain as can be that the shooting which the Chinese Communists started on August 23 had as its purpose not just the taking of the island of Quemoy. It is part of what is indeed an ambitious plan of armed conquest...
...Chinese Communists have decided to risk a war, it is not because Quemoy itself is so valuable to them. They have been getting along without Quemoy ever since they seized the China mainland nine years...
Some misguided persons have said that Quemoy is nothing to become excited about. They said the same about South Korea, about Viet Nam, about Lebanon...
...assure you that no American boy would ever be asked by me to fight just for Quemoy. But those who make up our armed forces-and I believe the American people as a whole-do stand ready to defend the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes...
...President of the U.S. last week told the Communist world that the U.S. would fight before it would see the Chinese Communists seize Quemoy. He told restive free world allies that, with or without them, the U.S. was determined to stand against the kind of appeasement that led down the road to World War II. And inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said...