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...Chairman. The following day, in an equally caustic mood, Sir Gladwyn took over the Council presidency for September. He promptly broke through the roadblock set up by Malik. Before the session was 60 seconds old, Britain's Jebb invited South Korea's patient John M. Chang to sit with the Council during its discussion of North Korean aggression. Malik waved for attention, snapped his fingers, called "point of order" twice in English. But Jebb kept eyes on Chang until the Korean was seated at the table. Then Malik got the floor...
Final Word. When Jebb called for a vote, everyone but Malik favored a seat for Chang. Then, Jebb gave Chang the floor and the final word of the week...
Prominently featured in the Chinese section were six paintings by a non-convert named Chang Chao-ho, who has been commissioned to illustrate the Church's first full translation of the Bible into Chinese. To him, as to Korean Sculptor Kim Chong Young, the Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
Southeast from Paektu runs the Chang-paik (Ever White) Range. Winding down along the east coast to the southern tip of the peninsula, this mountain backbone according to Korean folklore, changes direction 99 times...
Crowning Irony. The crowning irony came this week when Nationalist Spokesman Shen Chang-huan felt constrained to dispel at least part of the heavy fog surrounding President Truman's statement on Formosa. Said Shen in a statement to the Chinese press: "I believe the U.S. has no territorial ambitions on Formosa." It was a statement that any local U.S. spokesman might have been expected to make, but of course none did. Any local U.S. diplomat who said anything reassuring to the Chinese government would have expected to lose...