Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Current news reports would indicate that Russia may have inspired the Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...
Therefore, we should not fall into a Communist trap and refuse indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History
...American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...
Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if France were to appoint an American or ah Englishman as Minister of National Defense...
Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, 61, who thought he might be able to take it easy once the nine-month-long Communist trial ended last month, had met a slight delay: he tried to read 50,000 congratulatory letters, arranged for acknowledging them. Last week, after taking in the Princeton-Yale game, he and his wife set off for a three-month vacation at an unannounced destination. Said he: "I'm not going to make any speeches anywhere or run for anything. What I want to do most is to rest...