International: DOES HE WANT US TO LIVE?

Dean Acheson last week invited U.N. to settle the "Question of Formosa" and its "longterm political" status (see above). What effect did this action have on Formosa? John Osborne, senior TIME & LIFE correspondent in the Pacific, was in Taipei when news of Acheson's step reached the Nationalist capital. His 'report:

IN looking for the "Question of Formosa," the visitor has the help of many more Americans than were here last July, when the U.S. posture on this island was at its tragic low. Then the senior U.S. officials in residence were a charge...

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