Word: cablegrams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...
...purge trial back home, announced a discovery: Soviet Russia had robbed Czechoslovakia of her independence. Houdek sent his $1,100 passage money back to the Czech delegation and issued a long statement of resignation at U.N. headquarters. Insisting that he was still a "socialist", he sent Joseph Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole...
...denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman. Just before he left New York, Li had a cablegram. From Formosa, President Chiang expressed hope that Acting President Li would, indeed, be able to return soon. But nobody really thought that he would...