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The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area - Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
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Title: The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area
Author: John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area
Statement by Secretary Dulles
White House Statement
President Eisenhower's Report to the American People
President Eisenhower's Letter to Premier Khrushchev
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 6708
Far Eastern Series 76
Released September 1958
Public Services Division
The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area
1. Statement by Secretary Dulles,
September 4, 1958
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I have reviewed in detail with the President the serious situation which has resulted from aggressive Chinese Communist military actions in the Taiwan (Formosa) Straits area. The President has authorized me to make the following statement.
1. Neither Taiwan (Formosa) nor the islands of Quemoy and Matsu have ever been under the authority of the Chinese Communists. Since the end of the Second World War, a period of over 13 years, they have continuously been under the authority of Free China, that is, the Republic of China.
2. The United States is bound by treaty to help to defend Taiwan (Formosa) from armed attack and the President is authorized by joint resolution of the Congress to employ the Armed Forces of the United States for the securing and protecting of related positions such as Quemoy and Matsu.
3. Any attempt on the part of the Chinese Communists now to seize these positions or any of them would be a crude violation of the principles upon which world order is based, namely, that no country should use armed force to seize new territory.
4. The Chinese Communists have, for about 2 weeks, been subjecting Quemoy to heavy artillery bombardment and, by artillery fire and use of small naval craft, they have been harassing