Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. QUEMOY AND TAIWAN Bruno Shaw has done well by "The Quemoy Controversy"...
...without them, not...
...Loss of those islands would be a great blow to the morale of the Nationalists—on Formosa, overseas, and on the mainland...
...Washington STANLEY K. HORNBECK...
...Incidentally, in possession of the Nationalists, Quemoy and Matsu are obstacles to a launching by Communist China of an attack on Formosa...
...QUEMOY AND TAIWAN Bruno Shaw has done well by "The Quemoy Controversy" (NL, October 31...
...Those off-shore islands, thus, are of importance both from the point of view of military strategy and from the point of view of psychological warfare...
...Are we willing to become neutral with regard to the fate of Quemoy and Matsu and thereby chance our getting a Formosan War...
...and, among the consequences, the task of defending Formosa would fall far more heavily than now upon the United States...
...With those in right amount they are defensible...
...Were they to be taken by or given to the Communists, that obstacle would disappear and those islands would become a base or a staging point, or both, for such a launching...
...Neither the National Government nor the Provincial Government, on Formosa, is "in exile...
...But he stumbles twice in speaking of the National Government of the Republic of China as a "government in exile...
...The question of their "defensibility" is a question of wisdom, will power and weapons...
...Through having become "neutral" in regard to the conflict in China in 1946, in 1950 we got Korea...
...also, once, at least, in speaking of it as "the Nationalist Government...
...The ''National Government" of the Republic of China is seated on Formosa (Taiwan), and Formosa is, by every test except that of a legal technicality, a part of China...
Vol. 43 • November 1960 • No. 45
