Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI

Editorial Note

In the course of a radio and television report to the American people on the situation in Korea on the evening of September 1, President Truman expressed the hope that the people of China would not be misled or forced into fighting against the United Nations or the American people. He went on to say that the future of Formosa should be settled peacefully by international action and not by the decision of the United States or any other nation alone. The United States, he said, did not want Formosa for itself, and the mission of the Seventh Fleet was solely to keep Formosa out of the Korean conflict. (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1950, page 609)