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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educator in China, Dr. Stuart traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...
Plan for the Future. After the war Dr. Stuart planned to set Yenching going again; then he would retire, to end his days in China. But last month General Marshall's man-to-man attempts to get Chiang and Chou En-lai to continue talking peace stalled. He called in Dr. Stuart, asked him to speak to the Nationalist leader. In a few days, Old China Hand Stuart helped Westerner Marshall achieve the truce he sought. And he had given Marshall an idea...
...soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be-the tragedy of the bedroom.' " "How do you like." he asked Gorky, "Sophie Andreyevna [his wife]?" Not many years later the aged Tolstoy ran away from home because of Sophie Andreyevna, fell ill en route and died in a stationmaster's dwelling a hundred miles away...
...Last week, the body of Manuel Quezon, who died at Saranac Aug. 1, 1944, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, was en route back to the Philippines aboard the U.S. carrier Princeton...
Evidently having dropped, en route, a small matter of three zeros...