SIR, — Mr. Adlai Stevenson says that thy United States
has a right to defend Formosa and ought to do so, but he does not say what right. The question is extremely important because it is being suggested that this country might be called upon to join in the defence of Formosa as part of collective measures by the United Nations to suppress aggression. But the measures may be very drastic and dreadful and we must be quite sure, first, that it is a perfectly clear case of aggression second, that there was no provocation; and third, that all means of prevention have been tried. they persist in their policy of intervention' in the Chinese civil war they will have to inter- vene alone. There is a good chance that if America would make an offer through the United Nations to submit the Formosa dis- pute to some form of arbitration, the offer, would be accepted, and I suggest that we ought to appeal to the Americans to make that offer before any attack starts.—Yours
R. L. BITCHING
Wet herby, Yorks
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