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Blameworthy Bull. The bulk of the Japanese navy was divided into four groups. Two minor groups made up the southern force, which was supposed to steam through Surigao Strait between Leyte and Mindanao. The main striking group was the central force, under Vice Admiral Kurita. which was to steam through San Bernardino Strait north of Leyte between Samar and Luzon. Like two arms of a nutcracker, the two fleets were to converge on Leyte Gulf, wipe out. amphibious and supply craft there, and isolate MacArthur's forces on the island. A third (northern) force under Vice Admiral Ozawa...
...think Quemoy is the place to fight Communism," Vincent remarked. The present U.S. involvement in the Formosa strait is "a situation to which we should never have committed ourselves...
...week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance the press had put on his comment fortnight before (TIME, Oct. 13) that the Chinese Nationalists were "foolish" to concentrate 100,000 fighting men on the offshore islands. As a military matter, the U.S. will advise some reduction of these forces, but U.S. diplomatic policy...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles said yesterday the United States is "not going to attack or tolerate attacks against the Chinese Communists" in the Formosa Strait...
Aboard the USS Midway in the East China Sea, Oct. 19--The U.S. Navy has withdrawn some of its ships from Formosa Strait since the Chinese Reds voluntarily silenced their guns Oct. 9, two U.S. 7th Fleet admirals disclosed Sunday...