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...Paris, Ho (then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc) became a photographer's assistant, wrote anti-imperialist articles. He also joined the French Communist Party. He was sent to Moscow for training, became a Comintern functionary, re-emerged in 1925 at Canton, where he helped Russian Agent Borodin in Communism's first attempt to seize China...
...participation, e.g., German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty. As politicians, almost all of them still believed that damning the boche was the cheapest way of getting votes in France. A week before, they had instructed Schuman to stall on the whole issue. But now Schuman said: "J'ai quelque chose ici" . .[I have something here...
...Gehrmann had grabbed the lead, set the pace for a slow 64-second quarter. Villanova's John Joe Barry had taken over the pace-setter's role for the next five laps; then it was FBI Man Wilt's turn. For the next ai laps Special Agent Wilt ran his own race, with Gehrmann at his heels. Eighty yards from home, Gehrmann moved into high gear, passed Wilt, won by eight yards...
Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...