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Across the central Asiatic wastes in China's far Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...game, they had taken the long disputed province of Transylvania from Rumania. Germany bought their crops and paid for them. The collapse of Yugoslavia further .strengthened Hungary. Magyar counts strode haughtily along the Danube confident that Budapest would soon be capital of Southeastern Europe, a strong and respected buffer between Berlin and Rome, guardian of the status quo from the Black Sea to the Adriatic...
Andorra's sovereignty supposedly dates back to 777, when Charlemagne drove southward against the Saracens, then padded the Christian world with little buffer states. For centuries some 5,000 Andorran mountaineers dwelt in peace, snowbound more than half the year, in their high valley-about two-thirds the size of New York City...
Farther west, in Sinkiang, the Chiangs may have also discussed politics as well as transportation with the Russians who have dominated Sinkiang in the ten-year power play for influence (and buffer territories) between the Japanese, the Russians, the Moslems, the Chinese Communists and Chiang...
Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...