Guest Column
SHAW, BRUNO
GUEST COLUMN Formosa Must Not Be Abandoned -To Reds or to UN Trusteeship By Bruno Shaw Formosa, with its 8 million native Chinese and 2 million voluntary exiles, is more than an important link in...
...The Republic of China on Formosa warns the Western world against making any compromise that would undermine its plans to regain the mainland when it considers the time propitious...
...And that, as long as this Free China remains intact, only so long will resistance to Communist aggression remain a living and potent force in that part of the world...
...Individual members of the United Nations, by publicly toying with the idea of "two Chinas," denounced with equal vigor by both Taipei and Peking, are merely prolonging the very tensions they protest they are endeavoring to diminish...
...The mutual defense agreement signed last December between the United States and the Republic of China is designed to discourage such an attack and to insure its defeat if it does take place...
...Molotov rowed a boat...
...At the coming foreign ministers' conference, the "summit" music of vague generalities will have ended, but the Russians hope to make the memory linger on...
...They expect that the agricultural, economic, political and social reforms that have been made in Formosa during the past few years will, when they are made better known on the mainland, produce repercussions among civilians and soldiers in Red China...
...After all, people who pick blackberries, make jokes, row boats and plant roses are peaceful humans like ourselves...
...Trusteeship of Formosa by the United Nations, of which the Soviet Union is a member in good standing, would prove to be merely a slightly delayed method of handing Formosa over to the Chinese Reds...
...Malik planted flowers...
...The purpose of United States training and equipping of the Chinese Nationalist armed forces is to enable the Republic of China to defend itself against Communist attack...
...In the UN war with North Korea and Communist China, the Russians supplied the weapons and military assistance that were responsible for the loss of thousands of American and other UN lives...
...The United States will become vulnerable to Communist aggression throughout the Pacific...
...It is determined not to "die on the vine...
...and that if there is to be an international chess game in which countries are to be the pieces, it intends to be one of the players and not merely one of the pawns...
...Spokesmen for one of them, the Republic of China, declare that each additional inch of territory relinquished to the Communists narrows down the defense perimeter of the free world...
...If Formosa is "liberated" by the Chinese Communists, these overseas Chinese will automatically become instruments of Communist aggression in the countries in which they reside...
...Since Geneva, there has been a "new look" in public posturings of Soviet leaders...
...In this friendly atmosphere, there seems to be but one discordant note: The people whose fate hangs upon the degree to which the Western nations allow themselves to be beguiled are reluctant to be sold down the river, and the people in many countries already behind the Iron Curtain want out...
...They believe that these repercussions will take the form of active uprising against Communist ruthlessness and regimentation...
...And that, when such a rebellion takes place, the civilian and military forces in Formosa will be ready and able to lend a hand...
...They could prevent or emasculate whatever security provisions the majority of the UN might hope to install...
...Marshal Zhukov even sent his old friend President Eisenhower a photograph of the entire Zhukov family...
...They contend that Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu constitute a physical as well as psychological barrier to the collapse of the entire Far East into the rapacious maw of Communism...
...In a UN Formosa trusteeship, the Soviets would be on both sides of the fence, inside as well as out...
...All smiled pleasantly for the cameraman...
...GUEST COLUMN Formosa Must Not Be Abandoned -To Reds or to UN Trusteeship By Bruno Shaw Formosa, with its 8 million native Chinese and 2 million voluntary exiles, is more than an important link in our Western Pacific chain of defense...
...It is the center of the psychological universe for 13 million overseas Chinese...
...Bulganin made jokes...
...It might be well, therefore, for the foreign ministers who gather at Geneva with fond memories of row-boating, blackberry picking, rose planting and joke making to consider the views of one of the several nations whose fate hangs largely upon decisions the foreign ministers may make...
...It has served notice that it will not be sold down the river without a fight...
...Khrushchev picked blackberries...
Vol. 38 • October 1955 • No. 40
