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...phrase to remember about Nelson Trusler Johnson. Born in Washington 52 years ago, he studied at Friends School and George Washington University. He was such a whiz at Latin, Greek and German that one of his professors casually said he ought to get a language appointment in the foreign service. He liked the idea, got a list of required subjects for the diplomatic exams, borrowed some books, read without instruction, passed in a walk, and before he knew it was at the end of the world...
...President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action of U. S. foreign policy...
...statement of repudiation, issued by the Foreign Office press bureau, said that neither the assertions of the mouth place of world Communism nor the interpretations placed upon them abroad represent the Soviet Government's views...
Prominent guests who will be invited include: Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States; Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith; Professor Frederick L. Schuman from Williams; Max Lerner; and Clarence K. Streit. The club hopes to get also the attendance of a number of foreign diplomats from Washington and a selected group of the University's faculty...
Last year Kahin was chairman of the Student Union's Foreign Affairs Committee. As he and a number of friends felt the need of more "independence of action", thy broke away from the Union in September and formed this entirely independent association...