Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgium-Luxembourg-750 men, en route...
...Colombia-one frigate, en route...
...reply came at last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...
...Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites...
...Presidents of the United States"*) was sentenced to five years in prison. He promptly persuaded a gullible major to let him out to pick up $150,000 cached in the Maryland hills. Since Bergdoll was heir to a brewery fortune, the Army believed his story. En route, he got free of his guards, fled into a waiting limousine, led the Army a dizzy chase across the U.S. to freedom in Europe, taunting his pursuers with picture postcards along the way. An unhappy exile, the senior Bergdoll voluntarily returned home from Germany in 1939 because he wanted "to bring [my] children...