GAITSKELL’S VIEW
War Over Quemoy “Lunacy” LONDON, September 26. The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, said last night that Formosa should be put under the United Nations, whh a plebiscite, so that the Formosans might decide their future for themselves. In an independent television interview, he said this would mean that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek would have to go, and it must also involve accepting Communist China as a member of the
United Nations. Asked if the Americans would be justified in resisting a Communist Chinese attack on Formosa, he said: “I don’t believe that is the danger. “Formosa is 100 miles from the coast of China, Quemoy is four miles, and there is really, in my opinion, very little danger of China attacking Formosa.” Quemoy was part of the mainland of China, and undoubtedly belonged to Communist China. “I have already made it plain that, for the Americans to intervene in that, with the danger of a third world war, is absolute lunacy,’.’ he declared.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 13
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