Mr. Richards said he doubted wnether anyone in Jotheast
Asie seriously believed that the Generalissimo would ever si ctcessfully return to mainland China, out he believed thet tne Uenerolissimo himself wes genuinely sinccre in his ow belief that he vould.
What particularly bothers the Generalissimo is the sense of frustration now current on Taiwan.
Accordingly, if the United States now
acts further to destroy the hone of a return to th: mainianc, the
effect will be to increase this sense of frustration.
Tt .w2s ia
this context that Chiang Kei-shek had asked him tc tell tne itresident of his hope for assistance 1n the training of Chinese ;ationalist paratroopers.
Such treining ould constitute visible proof
that the United States had not given up hope of an eventual return
of the Nationalists to the Thinese mainianc.
Chiang apravertiz hai
in mind a force of some 50C) mratrccpers.
This was, c? ‘cirse, @
matter for the President ani the Setretary of Stato to device, but
in any case Mr. Richards ccuns:liec that we avoid dol
“ning te
increase the sense of frustrctio: nuw widespread in Teli
Governor Stassen commente. that the problem
perk .ps
be solved by providing the Goner:lissimo with a few peraveoo gs
t+c
and reducing the size of ctr12r
At this point Mr. Curler summed ur what he
Lieved to be
the Council's consensus with respec’ to parasraphs 3 a
2
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Where the views of the State Lepartment and
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5503,
of Stef? seemed to have prevailel.
Ee then said that
up two other proposed revisions wn HSC 5503, which he
non-controversial in character.
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with paregraph 10 of NSC 5°07, whiz. tir. Cutler read ac
ion 2
fol ows:
Seek tc preserv-, tnrough United Hatlors aztion
if appropriate, tne status quo of the GRO-heli of:-snore
islands.
Provide tc the IRC forcés, militazy eq. pment
and training to assist them to defend such off-shrre iclands, using Formcse aes 2 vase.
U. S. forces
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be use
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inese Nat.onalists to defend the (RO-ne
off-shore idands from Chinese Communist a.ttaits vwienever
the President judges that such attaces
are parts «ff, 0°
definite preliminaries to, attacks against the 2 n posi-
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Secretary Dulles, however, did not regard the mil‘er as
non-controversial, and said he would rather have tunis paracraplh. foilow Public Law 4 verbatim, because the statement of intentirn set
forth in the text of Public Law 4 was more authoritative thon
Fresident's statement to the Tonsress as te how he would .
Public Law 4.
There was nc regson needlessly to cartail tm
dent's authority, and there wac mus. un the 1
Public Law 4 to justify hic arson
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