Last Bastion

O'Connor (Aff.) began. Formosa was important strategically, our former ally, the "last bastion of liberty in Asia", because of previous events. America was sitting tight, prepared to negotiate and anxious to preserve the' peace of the area. ("Yea", interjected Bollinger, "the biggest piece she can get.") Straightforward and lucid. Brown (Neg.) said it was not a question of the merit of China's red Government. Our alternative to co-existence was nonexistence to which even President Eisenhower ("in his more lucid moments") had concurred. American prestige was not our concern.