Word: communists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman has decided, somewhat belatedly, that he doesn't like the Chinese Communists. The President expressed his views recently when Acheson suggested that U.S. warships join British warships in breaking the Chinese Nationalist blockade of Communist ports, which interferes with Western trade. Said the President: let the Nationalists first see if they can make their blockade stick. Furthermore, let the Communists prove they can control China or gain the support of the Chinese people...
...State Department now expects the British, with India and Australia in tow, to recognize the Chinese Communists before year's end. The British suggested that they would consider withholding recognition only if the U.S. promised to help them defend Hong Kong against a possible Communist attack; the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have come out flatly against such a U.S. commitment...
...know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide what can and should be done. If the Chinese Communists are illiterate...
Last month the Czech Communist government brought obviously phony charges of espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some...
...forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads of pilots and crewmen chose instead to slip off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic British colonial courts. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham flatly announced that British recognition of Red China, expected soon (see INTERNATIONAL), would automatically give the Communists possession of the airlines, anyway...