Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police wanted to make one more test. Samples of Tommy's blood, of the Thompsons' and of their two children back in Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your...
Politely, Tuan asked the nine to come back into the Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
...Washington, the State Department heard that a messenger from Canton had been sent to Europe, with a suitcase full of back pay for Chinese diplomats...
...Last of Mrs. Field. In August, he bought passage on a plane bound back to Prague. When the plane landed in Czechoslovakia, Hermann was not aboard; his name had been crossed off the manifest. That was the last anyone heard of Hermann. Noel's wife wrote Hermann's wife, who was in England, telling her that Hermann too had disappeared. That was the last anyone ever heard of Herta. Last week, Mrs. Hermann Field took the case to the State Department...
...last week, the Foreign Ministers had handed the matter back to their weary deputies, who have been struggling with it on & off through 200-odd meetings over the past 2½ years...