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Idylls of a Comrade. In 1946, the U.S. began its ill-fated attempt to mediate between Chiang and the Reds, giving the Communists further time to strengthen their position. Special U.S. Envoy Patrick Hurley personally brought the reluctant Mao to Chungking. Before the plane took off at Yenan airfield, he nervously kissed his small daughter goodbye as though he were being taken to the executioner...
...purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school building and endowed a course of lectures on foreign affairs...
...paternity suit brought against Myron C. Taylor, venerable presidential envoy to the Vatican, was thrown out of court a second time, because the defendant was in Manhattan and the court was in Chicago. Mrs. Eunice Walterman, a Chicago housewife, had claimed that she was his illegitimate daughter...
...change was an official reversal of George Marshall's recommendation (made when he was a special envoy to China) that the Nationalists and the Communists should get together in a coalition government. The Marshall coalition policy has never been publicly revoked-though the U.S. has retreated from it in practice by authorizing military aid to help fight the Communists (which thus far has not been very effective...
...After more than five years as the U.S. envoy to Canada, Ray Atherton was past 65 and heading for retirement. On the way, he would round out his career by serving as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly...