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Aromatic Chungking, where I welcomed the spring,
Few Ambassadors ever came to Washington with the spectacular advance notices of Great Britain's tweedy, impassive Lord Inverchapel. His glittering reputation spanned more than 40 years of service in most of the world's capitals (Moscow, Chungking, Bagdad, etc.). But once in the U.S., Inverchapel became known...
Denver-born George Atcheson Jr., 50, entered the State Department 27 years ago as a student interpreter at the Peiping Legation, had specialized in Far Eastern affairs ever since. As second secretary of the Nanking Embassy, he was aboard the gunboat Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the...
In 1945, as Charge d'Affaires in Chungking, Atcheson was charged with insubordination by his superior, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, because he had recommended U.S. Lend-Lease aid to the Chi nese Communists in the face of the avowed U.S. policy of helping the Nationalist Government. Atcheson along with...
Author of a recent book on the same subject, Epstein was attached to the Office of War Information in Chungking during part of the war, and was one of the first correspondents to get into North China after it had been blockaded for five years.