FOREIGN RELATIONS: Clear Line

The President of the U.S. last week told the Communist world that the U.S. would fight before it would see the Chinese Communists seize Quemoy. He told restive free world allies that, with or without them, the U.S. was determined to stand against the kind of appeasement that led down the road to World War II. And inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy—not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive...

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