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...served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow, on the mainland 100 miles across the Strait of Formosa. Three days after the announcement, Red artillery units on the mainland opened up on the offshore island of Little Quemoy with the heaviest bombardment in months, as a way of showing...
...Many Conferences. Founded by a Belgian-born League of Nations interpreter named Antoine Velleman, the school began with only 20 students in one of the buildings of the University of Geneva. By 1951, when Dean Stelling-Michaud took over, Geneva canton authorities were so impressed by it that they agreed to help finance it. Stelling-Michaud added modern equipment for simultaneous translation, built up one of the largest dictionary libraries in the world. By 1955 the school had become an autonomous part of the University of Geneva...
...movie star whose Red sympathies had carried him back to the mainland, she had been helped to fame and fortune by a series of profitable associations with some of Hong Kong's wealthiest, businessmen. One of them wanted her to divorce her husband after he went back to Canton. It was simple enough: all she did was advertise in a local paper that she and her husband were no longer living together. For this the new admirer made her a thoughtful gift of $33,000. Soon afterward, pert little Hung startled both the lover and Hong Kong operagoers...
...Anne, Md.; Home Secretary, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, Ill.; Corresponding Secretary, Jared M. Diamond '58, of Winthrop House and Brookline, Mass.; Publicity Director, David L. Bynum '59, of Kirkland House and Coffeyville, Kansas; Director of Competition, Melvin S. Schwarzwald '59, of Kirkland House and Canton, Ohio...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...