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...Conservative Party adopted a campaign tone that sounded as though it would give the Communists everything they wanted in the Far East. In Viet Nam the instability of the new U.S.-supported government and the resulting civil strife was a critical problem (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the Formosa Strait there lay the danger of possibly blundering onto the low road of appeasement...
Clearly, President Eisenhower had decided that the U.S. would not sound more belligerent than the Communists. If the Chinese Reds want to talk about a ceasefire in the Formosa Strait, then the U.S. will talk. The President would not demand that the Chinese Nationalists participate in all such discussions...
...world basis, all this added up to net progress for the U.S. and its allies. The Reds still had the initiative in the Formosa Strait-it was they who could start a war or grab territory-but the U.S. was parrying their diplomatic thrusts. For the moment, the anti-Communist feeling shown at Bandung was the big, new fact in Asia. And the recent European success of the anti-Communist forces far outbalanced all Red Asian gains...
...Placing in effect an immediate cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. ¶ Immediately releasing the eleven U.S. airmen and the American civilians whom it unjustly holds...
...York Herald Tribune or the Washington Post and Times Herald, all of whom supported the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, shown any 'devotion' to this Administration's program on the big questions of 'loyalty' at home or war in the Formosa Strait? "If the country has what the Democrats call a one-party press, the Republicans have been cheated, for they have not even been able to count on the unfailing support of David Lawrence, and in Westbrook Pegler's book Eisenhower has almost (but not quite) replaced Roosevelt as the leading...