Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Then came a hot question to Nixon. Would he launch the U.S. into a war-conventional or nuclear-if Quemoy or Matsu were attacked? Answered Nixon...
...substantially the longstanding Administration position: "In the event the attack was a prelude to an attack on Formosa-because the Chinese Communists say over and over again that their objective is not the offshore islands, that they consider them only Steppingstones to obtain Formosa -there isn't any question but that the United States would then honor our treaty obligations and stand by our ally, Formosa. To do what Senator Kennedy has suggested, to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance, is not something that would lead...
...Question Mark Has Answered Well...
Though the President advocated a reduction of Quemoy forces provided that the Communists pledged a ceasefire, he did not waver on the question of Communist expansion. "The basic issue, as we see it," he said in October, "is to avoid retreat in the face of force...
...less (Eisenhower's visit to Formosa last June occasioned the last big shelling). Though U.S. policy has at times been wobbly as well as ambiguous, Quemoy and Matsu, garrisoned with 100,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, are still free-a fair measure of the power of the bristling question mark that the U.S. has raised for the Communists to ponder...