Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Communist Manchuria last week, the U.S. received a thin piece of news: U.S. Consul General Angus Ward was still alive. The Chinese Communists who held him prisoner had permitted him to send out a request for food, clothing and reading matter...
That was all the State Department knew about the humiliating status of the diplomat and four consulate colleagues jailed with him (TIME, Nov. 21). Angrily, President Truman called the whole affair an outrage. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that the U.S. would not even consider recognition of Communist China until it released the prisoners and offered assurances that the 2,500 other Americans stranded in China would be safe...
...Cross indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
...another federal courtroom, in San Francisco, the U.S. began last week the job of trying to prove that Harry Bridges is a Communist and that he had perjured himself when he denied it. The Government had tried unsuccessfully twice before; this time the Government promised a new witness whose words would "carry a real Sunday punch." If the charge can be proved, the vociferous, needle-nosed boss of the C.I.O. Longshoremen can be sent back to his native Australia. As in the Hiss trial, the jury is eight women and four...
Sweethearts & Five Stars. Communist troops have been as anxious as the British to avoid incidents along the border between the British enclave and Red China, which runs along the main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless...