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Yet the five joined a U.S.S.R. bacteriologist, "investigated" the charges as a six-man commission, and found them "true." Shiniest button on the Reds' false front was Cambridge University's Professor Needham, whose summary of achievements fills 5½ in. in the British Who's Who, and...
In Chungking in November 1950, Methodist Missionary Francis Olin Stockwell, 52, from Perry, Okla., was just sitting down to Sunday supper when the
¶ To be Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs: Walter S. (for Spencer) Robertson, 59, first-family Virginia investment banker and sometime China hand. A Democrat (who liked Ike in '52), Robertson went to work for the Government during World War II, served as chief of the...
His visit to Formosa was a big, bright feather in the Nationalist cap. Its importance stemmed not only from his eminence as a philosopher, poet, diplomat and educator, but from the fact that he was once regarded as outside of and above the struggle between Communists and Kuomintang. After four...
When the Communists tried to indoctrinate him in a Chungking prison, Missionary Stockwell noticed that it did little good to refuse to listen to their arguments. Those who did so were simply chained and beaten. Accordingly, he pretended to give serious thought to the prison course for the re-education...