CHINESE THREAT TO FORMOSA
(Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. The Senate Republican leader, Senator William Knowland, said today that the build up of Communist air power along the China coast posed a threat to the United States 7th Fleet as well as to Formosa.
But Senator Walter George, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he did not think there was “anything new” about the build-up, which was described as “extensive” yesterday by Mr Dulles, the Secretary of State. “It’s just a step up in tempo,” Senator George said. Senator Knowland proposed that Mr Dulles and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be called before tbe Foreign Relations Committee this week to give it a secret briefing. “If the Communists should gain air superiority over the Formosa straits,” he said, “it would certainly raise a question as to the security not only of Quemoy and Matsu and Formosa, but also the security of the 7th Fleet.” The 7th Fleet is in the Formosa Straits guarding the island from possible Communist attack.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 13
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