Word: chefoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chefoo to Cheesecloth. Thornton was certainly different. Whatever school he attended-the Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
...Control of seven key ports in North China. With Anglo-U.S. blessing bestowed in Yalta's secret agreements, the Russians are already entrenched at Port Arthur and Dairen. In addition they want Chinwang-tao, Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Haichow. They would thus be stationed from the Great Wall south along the Shantung Peninsula, threatening the U.S. position in Korea and Japan. ¶ More food from Manchuria to Russia, though much of China faces famine. ¶ A labor force of 500,000 Chinese to work on projects in the Soviet Union. ¶ More rights for non-Chinese minorities (Turkis...