894A.00/10–2149: Airgram
The Consul at Taipei (Edgar) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 27—5:13 p. m.]
A–110. The following is a translation from the Japanese of a letter received at this office:
“Dear Mr. Consul General,
“With the establishment of the Central People’s Government of the Republic of China, the entire continent will be overwhelmed by communism.
“In the past four years, the people of Taiwan have suffered immensely both in spirit and material under the incompetent, despotic and feudalistic control of the corrupt Chinese Government. The sorrow and sufferings of the 7,000,000 people of the island of Taiwan can never be fully expressed in writing or in words, and not a single islander is satisfied with the present situation.
“Once Canton and Amoy fell into communist hands, there would be no more guaranty of Taiwan’s security. We, the people of Taiwan can no longer tolerate the rule by incompetent Chinese irrespective of their being communists or not.
“It is the desire and wish of the seven million islanders that you will transmit to the U.S. Government our wishes to the latter to immediately dispatch an army to occupy and protect Taiwan, to expel the cruel Chinese troops and restore us to hope.
“From a representative of the Taiwanese people.”
It is believed that the above does, in fact, represent the desires of a great majority of the Taiwanese.