Dulles Offers Formosa Armistice, Cut in Nationalist Military Power; Little Rock Schools Remain Shut

WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles Tuesday heralded a possible major shift in America's China policy. He offered to try trimming Nationalist military strength in the Formosa Strait offshore islands if the Communists quit shooting.

Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to wrest the China mainland from the Communists. Dulles said Chiang's return "is a highly hypothetical matter."

"I don't think that just by their own steam they are going to get there," the secretary said, adding under questioning that the United States has "no commitment of any kind to aid in that."

Meanwhile, the United States is sending huge new landing ships and C-119 Flying Boxcars for a big Chinese Nationalist supply rush to break the Red blockade of Quemoy. A U.S. Military spokesman said Tuesday the first Flying Boxcars are due this week.

One of the new LSD's Landing Ships, Dock which carry eight smaller landing craft in their holds, already is at Formosa and has made a run to Quemoy with big howitzers. The spokesman did not say when the other ships are due.

Segregation Battle Continues

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Little Rock's high schools were still closed Tuesday but the leader of the group that sought to operate them on a private basis said new plans are being drawn to continue the fight for segregation.

"We are far from finished," said T. J. Raney, president of the Little Rock Private School Corporation. "We can't quit." Raney gave no indication of the nature of the plan.

Governor Orval E. Faubus said "a way will be found" to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. He urged the people to stand firm after federal judges Monday blocked the private school operation with a temporary restraining order.