Haynes
Admiral, do you think that if the communists waged a third world war, an all out war, that we could hold on to Formosa?
Struble
We might possibly lose it during the course of the conflict, but it would be very important that we held it at first--
Huie
Well--
Struble
And that would make a considerable difference in the action. You can never be sure that in any action that might occur during a great world war that what any one part of something that you have today, if subjected to enough power by the enemy would fall. But there you have he point of Japan. Japan has a great industrial might. If the communists, with his present control areas in the far east, were permitted to use their natural resources and their manpower combined with the Japanese industrial power, we would have a tremendous power against us in the western Pacific