November 3, 1953
Office Memorandum from Mr. Ogburn to Mr. Drumright, 'Policy on Formosa'
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This office memorandum outlines two stark policy options regarding China and Formosa (Taiwan): either decisively commit to overthrowing the Chinese Communist regime or accept it as a permanent reality. Ogburn criticizes the existing US policy of maintaining an ambiguous stance, likening it to prolonging an untenable situation for Nationalist China, and urges clarity—whether to pursue full-scale military mobilization or to acknowledge Formosa as a permanently separated, independent entity
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