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...Moscow in 1925, Ho embarked upon a slithering, 15-year journey through the Communist underground of the world. He would appear shaven-headed in Thailand, disguised as a Buddhist monk; he would show up in the Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist...
...Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into India; India could extend its present air service 80 miles from free Hong Kong to Red Canton...
...Milwaukee, War Correspondent Don Dixon of the International News Service, testifying before Representative Charles Kersten's Special Committee on Communist Aggression, described how he kept his sanity during 18 months as a Communist prisoner in Canton, China: "I found my strength thinking about my family and my country. I didn't want to do anything that would make them ashamed of me or that would give the Communists any satisfaction. I wanted, in my own small way, to defy them, to show them that even though they had the guns, that was all they did have. I kept...
...Cincinnati's Taftland. Burke dislikes to campaign. As the four-time mayor of Cleveland, he rarely had to try hard, and he much prefers to spend his evenings in cozy spots with a few old political cronies. His campaign speeches have been studded with such unexciting lines as "Canton has more replevins for merchandise on credit than any time in its history...
...board and co-founder with his father of the Hoover Co., which, in 1908 (under the name Electric Suction Sweeper Co.), marketed the first vacuum cleaners, grew into one of the world's largest electrical appliance firms (1953 sales: $51 million); of a heart ailment; in Canton, Ohio...