Dulles Answers Questions as Desuit
Of Assertions in New Biography
WASHINGTON, Secretary
of State Dulles denied yesterday
that the United States ever made
a flat commitment to defend the
Nationalist islands of Quemoy
and Matsu.
Dulles told a news conference
there was no U.S. commitment,
secret or otherwise, except for
that expressed in a congressional
resolution adopted Jan. 23, 1955.
This “Formosa Resolution” gave
President Eisenhower congres
sional appoval for a fight-if
necessary policy in the Formosa
crisis. It left to Eisenhower dis
cretion the decision to defend the
Nationalist-held islands of Que
moy and Matsu off the Commu
nist Chinese mainland, if he felt
any attack on them was a Red
invasion thrust at Formosa.
Dulles was questioned at his
news conference on the basis of a
new biography’s assertion that
Eisenhower sent a “personal as
surance” to Nationalist China’s
President Chiang Kai-shek satis
fying Chiang that the United
States would help defend Quemoy
and 'Matsu.
Under questioning on one of the
points in the book, Dulles said it
is not true that the U.S. cancelled !
its offer to help Egypt build the !
Aswan Dam in order to force an [
economic aid showdown with the
Soviet Union.
The writer, John R. (Jack) Beal,
Time magazine’s diplomatic re
porter, described the Aswan ac
tion as a “major gambit” by Dul-!
les in the cold war with Russia.
Dulles said there were a num
ber of reascus for the cancella
British Shipping
Strike Called Off
For Gov’t Inquiry
LONDON, UFt—Union bosses
yesterday called off costly strikes
in Britain’s shipbuilding yards and
factories pending the outcome of
a government inquiry into their
pay demands.
The strikers—IVz million in the
factories and 200,000 in the ship
yards—were ordered to go back
to work on Thursday.
The decision was taken as the
walkouts threatened to cripple
Britain’s automobile production
and factories producing 40 per
cent of the nation’s exports.
The unions have demanded a
10 percent wage increase. Last
week they offered to call off the
strikes for an interim increase of
5 percent if the rest of the de
mand was left to a commission of
inquiry. The government asked
them to go back to work while
the investigation is in progress.
Factory owners have offered a
3 percent increase. Shipbuilding
employers are ready to give a 5
percent increase, but want an
agreement to freeze wages for a
year.
The shipyard strike, starting 18
days ago, has halted work by 200,
000 men on 300 vessels. Factory
workers 'began a ‘‘snowball”
walkout 10 days ago that pulled
\Vz million men off their jobs
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tion. He mentioned doubt that
Egypt, burdened by arms pur
chases, could finance its end of
the deal, the question whether this
country might encounter dislike
if the project failed for that rea
son, and the increasing alignment
of Egypt with Russia.
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