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...power. Dictator Trujillo is worried. The news from Washington increased his jitters. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, no friend of dictatorial bullies, had installed an old foe of Trujillo as the State Department's new chief of the Office of American Republic Affairs. The new man: able, forthright Ellis Briggs, who had been U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and openly hostile to the Dictator...
...commanders did not relish their paradoxical position. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander in the China theater, had discussed his difficulties in Washington, urging a clearer directive and a more forthright policy. He did not get what he wanted. Last week, on his way back to China, the General did some public thinking about the U.S. stake in China's civil strife. "There is no doubt," he said, "that the turn of events in an area embracing half the world's population must inevitably affect our country-economically, psychologically and perhaps militarily." In Shanghai Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid...
Kagawa is a small man with a ready smile, a forthright, friendly personality, and clothes as shabby as most Japanese. I had been told he was more likely than any to speak the truth about Japanese politics. This has been a police state, but his answers, in his own emphatic brand of English, were without hesitation or circumlocution...
...Russian is a very forthright individual with no inhibitions. He knows what he wants and goes after it.... There are some very lovely houses still standing between Potsdam and Berlin. The Russians . . . gave the occupants an hour's notice to get out. One old lady was so attached to her house that she refused; so the Russians made it possible for her to stay. She is now in the garden, under the flowers...
Surprise & Understanding. The Hong Kong episode came before the dust had settled from Foreign Secretary Bevin's first forthright venture into the field of foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for sweeping changes. Editorialized the Communist Daily Worker: "This is not yet the lead which millions of service and home voters . . . are waiting for." More sober and more traditional was the sizing-up of the Manchester Guardian: "British foreign policy, as Mr. Bevin expounded it, is not a matter of party...