European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes 1f50 Formosa looms As valued prize but Leader asserts Isle deserves Freedom by Stanley Rich Hon Kong mountainous Little Island Waits in the Pacific like sitting Duck to who is going to be its next the Island is and White its inhabitants wait and at least five inter National Powers Are which one of them is to take final Formosa is a tempting prize for its Rice and Coal production is More than enough for internal could help to alleviate demands Tor these products in other portions of the generally far the Island is also militarily make it the Middle of an 800mile Circle and the Circle will include parts of the Hon Kong and half of All at the Generalissimo Chiang Kaish eks nationalists bold both a a last Haven from the ascendant chinese communists and As a final for Tress from which to attack the reds on the but the chinese reds themselves also claim Formosa a their and have already announced their in Tention of invading the Island also interested in Formosa in varying degrees Are the has officially disclaimed Many High military officers Are known to contend1 that Formosa is vital to americas Pacific de sense Kne stretching from Alaska to the silent on the but the govern ment has several times indirectly supported chinese communist claims to the japans claim won Formosa after san japanese War of 1895 and occupied it up to the end of world War the japanese knew from experience How useful Formosa could be to any would be Daggres and they Are sure to make themselves heard1 when the Island is disposed of at a future conference to draw tip a peace treaty for but there is still a sixth inter ested is Small but extremely vocal minority or hic demands Formosa for the for which rejects All other claims to Possession a self appointed Leader of this years ago March 1946 president Truman and Winston Churchill depart for the former British prime minister will receive an honorary March 1947 Secretary of state George Marshall reviews the British re quest for financial Aid in March 1948 the ministry of information in Prague announces that president Eduard Benes has been ordered to take a Complete rest and that communist Premier Gottwald would serve As acting president March 1949 the russians notify Mili tary government that they have ordered All american Graves registration teams to leave the so Viet a chinese nationalist Soldier on Formosa grins As he pulls Darls from a drawing of communist chivas Leader Mao the nationalist Island who have suffered Many defeats at the hands of the keep up morale with the Dart game and wait for an expected assault from the a formosan Leader see Story asks that Formosa be kept for the formosan and says that neither the nationalists nor the reds have any claim to the group in Hon Kong is Joshua himself a member of one of the islands old landed Liao says the formosan Are being deprived of their natural right to self determination and the he Are controlled by e ruthless War lord who is entombed rather than entrenched on that Island Liao has a varied but he often prefers to build up his own arguments for an Independent and self governing Formosa by tear ing Down the Standard arguments of his his task is eased somewhat by the Odd fact that both the nationalists and piping governments claim Formosa As an integral part of China for the same this is How it works both chinese stressing that 90 per cent of the islands approximately Are pure claim Tea the formosan Are chinese in blood and that therefore the Island belongs to replies in both race psychology and physical a the native formosan today is As different from the chinese As the americans Are from the he admits that chinese blood but insists that intermarriage with Spanish and Manchu elements in the far and with japanese immigrants Morere has made the formosan a National in his own chinese argue on historical the Chi Nese argue that Formosa has Al ways been a Pant of not replies Formosa was hide pendent before the dutch occupation in 1624 and was a Sovereign state from 1661 to what about the Manchu Empire which ruled the Island Tor the next 200 and the japanese who occupied it from 1895 to 1945 Liao says it Doest prove a Formosa never willingly belonged to either China or the periods of their Rule were by one rebellion every five years and one disturbance every three he does not the argument that a Small country adjacent to a big one has no right to Independence justify Only Barbaric imperialism is also claimed by the chinese because of natural economic dependence upon Liao says China be too poor to revive her own let alone those of chinese officials have proven themselves too corrupt and inefficient to be of any Good to there Are More Industrial plants in Formosa alone than in All of that As to the islands economic dependence upon he notes that with rare formosan agricultural products and Industrial raw materials compete always and everywhere with those of under fire where the with Britain and the other signers comes under Liaos fire is Formosa is claimed to belong to China by virtue of the Cairo this declaration granted China then under nationalist Rule Sqq eighty Over pending final negotiation of the peace treaty with Liao says the Cairo Declara Tion is it was internationally the earlier Atlantic guaranteed the free expression of by the Cairo declaration entirely ignored the formosan wishes on banding the Island to the japanese in 1895 stole not from the nor from Chiang Waishek nor from Mao they took it from the native formosan who defied the Manchu resisted the japanese invasion and established the Independent formosan democratic therefore Formosa should be returned to the longer the rus sians annulled1 it when they walked into and the nationalists forfeited whatever claims they might have bad by collapsing before the communist As to the Heads they Are taking orders from Moscow and want the Island Only will be useful As the Malta of the Western until the Jap anese peace treaty in sealed and Formosa technically is still part of theoretically is inter National and by All moral Laws belongs to none but for Nisani ire american express is offering a 12day cruise of the Eastern Mediterranean aboard the 22ton luxury liner Atlantic which leaves Genoa april on the next Day the ship docks at Naples for 10 hours to receive Date arrivals and then proceeds along the italian through the Straits of Messina and Heads directly for the Landing at Alexandria permits a three Day land excursion up the Nile Valley to the pyramids and the on april 7 the Atlantic weighs Anchor and fails northward into the Island studded Aegean sea to make a port Call on the Island of on april 9 the ship docks at Piraeus and drives Inland to visit athe Sample time is Given to see the acropolis and other architectural examples of the civilization of the return trip is marked by another passage through the Straits of Messina and into the Bay of a 25hour Landing at beginning at 11 am april gives the passengers an Opportunity la visit Naples and the ruins of Early on the morning of the the Atlantic is due to arrive Back at the easter cruise actually operates from Genoa Back to Naples and the prices of accommodations Are based by an additional payment of passengers May continue Back to provided accommodations Are the Gnoato Naples accommodations Are priced from j150 to for those who disembark at Naples on the return an Opportunity is offered to Stop off at by acquiring a travellers May realize a 40 per cent reduction on their train fare Between All Points in 1m contrast to most other enter the Atlantic the on a one clan basis As regards and ship and regard us of will have us same attain and All will have free ran of the Bare excursions Are the Inland trip to Cairo a the visit to the excursion to Athens the tour of Naples and the ride ont to Pompeii a offices of the american express a Austria and Trieste Are prepared to accept members of the occupation Are a red to make their reservations since win probably break Alt records for european travel and bookings for an of and cruises will be unusually the coming scheduled passion play to be held in Oberammergau beginning May the american express has been cooperating with the committee of the passion play so that members of the occupation forces May have an Opportunity to see this performance and to stay for three Days in All persons who buy tickets to the passion play Only must make their own arrangements for accommodations either at Garmisch Parten Kirchen or place outside of a ticket May be bought with a three Day accommodation at Ober this accommodation includes dinner and lodging for the night before the three full meals and lodging for both the Day of the play and the Day following the and breakfast on the morning of these lodgings will be mostly in private the Price of accommodations runs from 50 Marks the Price of tickets for the play Are from six to 15 pm Harvey Carmich and pfc John of the 26th inf regt have won free trips to Paris for their entries in recent photo the Paris Tours Are donated by the american Harris Loon prize in the Garmise military Post photo and goes to Paris this Manser was the Fremd prize Grinner in the it Triberg military Post contest and a full visit in Neucom personnel who plan a special services tour to during March will find a full Calendar of entertainment Zurich offers exhibitions and Art collections at its museums and and there is a variety of cabaret concerts and sporting included in the Art until March is an exhibition of modern finnish painting under auspices of the finnish throughout the month there is scheduled an exhibition of water colors and lithographs by gathered from Public and private collections in v the exhibition of Swiss sculptors and architects is also scheduled to be shown throughout the the stars and stripes 318 editor chief managing editor sports editor much Mso it cat William Summers Ken Zun Wah executive manager chief of distribution Kirkwood news bureaus Frankfurt 3im132361 Darmstadt Berlin ms6m Bremerhaven ih4421363 Munich the european edition la published daily at for the occupation under the auspices or the army air forces troop information and education Tel Frankfurt the stars and Darmstadt correspondence should 6e addressed to the stars and afo mail to the new York office should be sent to my Washington this is not an official publication of the reentered As second class matter sept at the Post Ornce at new under the act of March 3 1