Judgments & Prophecies, may 2, 1955

DECISION NEEDED ON DEFENSE OF QUEMOY

GEORGE MEANY, president of the American Federation of Labor, addressing the Washington meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors:

OUR Government must stop beating about the bush on the Quemoy and Matsu issue. We call for full frankness with the American people and our allies. If our military leaders think these islands are expendable and their loss will have no dangerous consequences for our ally [Nationalist China]—the strongest ally we have in Asia—and for our country and the common cause, then let our Government leaders frankly say so and put an end to the uncertainty as...