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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians began with an air that was close to sweet reasonableness. Under the baiting of U.S. reporters, they ducked embarrassing questions ("That leads away from the question of peace"), or shrugged them off. In general, they seemed content to show themselves, prove that Russians were not monsters, declare their devotion to peace. Meanwhile they would let the Americans denounce the U.S. for them...
...that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close to $20,000 from the 1,900 diners, with the exhortation: "This meeting is only a beginning...
...Premier Ho and the rest of his cabinet picked five men to carry Nationalist China's peace hopes to the Communists. As nominal head of the delegation they named General Chang Chih-chung, former governor of Sinkiang Province and commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador to Russia...
...queen (see cut). Moy ran as the army's candidate for queen of all the festivals. Her nearest competitor was sultry, dark-haired Yolanda Ortiz, candidate of the traffic cops (the police department had its own candidate). Almost everyone in Mexico City knew that they were running a close race, but that Moy was ahead...
Students remaining in Cambridge during vacation can take their meals at the Union, either paying with coupons or signing for regular board rates. All House dining halls will close after dinner today, with Adams and Lowell reopening for breakfast Sunday, April 10. The other Houses will open for usual meals on Monday morning, April...