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Idylls of a Comrade. In 1946, the U.S. began its ill-fated attempt to mediate between Chiang and the Reds, giving the Communists further time to strengthen their position. Special U.S. Envoy Patrick Hurley personally brought the reluctant Mao to Chungking. Before the plane took off at Yenan airfield, he nervously kissed his small daughter goodbye as though he were being taken to the executioner...
Jogjakarta, the Republic of Indonesia's capital in south central Java, quickly fell. Dutch paratroopers and airborne forces seized Magowo airfield, outside the capital, and invaded the city. The action was so fast that the Dutch were able to arrest the republic's top leaders, including President Soekarno, Premier Mohammed Hatta, ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, Foreign Minister Hadji Agus Salim, and General Sudirman, commander of the republic's 300,000 ill-armed troops. The Dutch announced that they had only three wounded, none killed...
...Relax. It was 5 in the afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only...
...Secretary, sweating in the Key West heat, alighted from a plane at Boca Chica airfield and went purposefully to lunch with the President. But lunch included an assortment of Florida politicos; obviously no state secrets were discussed...
Next day I got ready to accompany a group of "have-money people" on a flight from Peiping to Shanghai. Under the curved roof of a windowless Quonset hut at Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed...