For Pacific Security

The day before Douglas MacArthur gave Congress a four-point strategy to win the Korean war, Harry Truman made public, through a press release, a four-point strategy for the defense of the Pacific. Its provisions:

P:A U.S. peace treaty with Japan, including an arrangement for American forces to garrison the country until it can protect itself.

P: A U.S. base on Okinawa. P:A U.S. guarantee that an armed attack on the Philippines would be looked upon as an armed attack upon the U.S. itself. P:A U.S. agreement with Australia and New Zealand on defense.

The day after MacArthur's address, the Truman Administration attached a footnote to its Pacific program. The Defense Department announced that it would send a military assistance advisory group, about 100 officers strong, to the Chinese Government on Formosa. Chief of the mission:Major General William C. Chase, a veteran of World War II Pacific campaigns. Washington made it clear that Formosa would not get U.S. aid in training and operation of its armed forces, as Greece and Turkey do. Chase's men will be mostly limited to a study of what the Nationalists need in equipment.

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