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...Judd's speech on "Our Ally China." I spent four and a half months in China (from mid-November till the last of March) as deputy to Donald M. Nelson and chief adviser to the Chinese War Production Board. This gave me an unusual opportunity to have first-hand knowledge of the situation in China, . . . and to witness the remarkable progress that was made in production of war materials and essential civilian supplies by the Chinese War Production Board under the able guidance of Dr. Wong Wenhao...
...assure him that if he will withhold his opinion of other types of Englishmen until he makes first-hand acquaintance with some of them, he will find many "good eggs" among them also...
...reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
...just while she was on the subject, "the President himself has no first-hand knowledge of war either, we might add. Like his little boy friends, Pearson and Winchell, he stayed far away from the battlefield of the first World War.* Although at that time a young man, and in perfect physical condition, he did 'his bit' as Assistant Secretary of the Navy-right here in Washington...
John Vorys, a notable member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has a first-hand authority about war & peace which few U.S. Congressmen command. He jumped into World War I as a fighter-pilot of the famed "Yale Unit."* He has roamed China; he watched the Washington Naval Limitations Conference of 1921-22 as assistant secretary of the American delegation, piloted a patrol plane off the Florida coast in the summer...