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Dept. of State letter. 3-31-4
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General MacArthur's Message on KKKX Formosa
In response to a message of August 17 from the
Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, General MacArthur cabled a message intended
to be read xxto the Fifty-First National Encampment of
that organization. He included in this message a detailed
statement of his views on the relationship of Formosa to
the American "strategic potential in the Pacific".
World War II, according to MacArthur's analysis,
had changed the
"strategic
frontier" from one lying "on the littoral line of the
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Americas with an exposed island salient
to the Philippines"
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to one embracing "the entire Pacific Ocean which has become
a vast moat to protect us". No predatory at tack
from Asia, MacArthur said, could be successful so Long as
"free
the United States and its allies held the island chamn from
the Aleutians to the Marianas, properly maintained and with
naval and air supremany and "modern ground elements to defend
bases". If this chain were lost, war would be inevitable.
Formosa in the hands of a power unfrinndly to the
United States, MacArthur stated, would constitute an enemy
salient in the center of this defensive perimiter from which
an enemy force, using intallations currently available,
could increase by 100 percent "the air effort which could be
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