Word: gauss
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Hurley's antipathy to John Carter Vincent goes back to China. Vincent had been Counselor of Embassy in Chungking under Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss. Then Vincent had taken over State's China desk. In Hurley's view Vincent and Gauss had no confidence in Chiang or in his ability to keep China afloat...
...Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel, some 2,000 foreign traders last week were told a fact of postwar life that old China hands already knew. The teller was Clarence Edward Gauss, ex-ambassador to China. Said Mr. Gauss: "China has emerged from the war a fully sovereign state. The vexatious issues relating to special foreign privileges existing in China under the old 'unequal' treaties having been swept away, we must enter upon our postwar trade relations on a new basis...
What this meant, said Mr. Gauss, was that Sino-American business relations were on a new-and as yet largely unknown- basis. Until the new basis is clear, he warned: the U.S. should go slow in making loans lest it foster "projects which cut across lines of our own interests." Nevertheless, he concluded: the manner in which those new relations are worked out will determine how many U.S. companies will want to invest money in China. "[While] mistakes may be made . . . the climate for American participation in the development of China will be ... healthful and encouraging...
That threat was never carried out. Gregarious, ironic, mercurial Dean Gauss genuinely liked his charges. His compassion and understanding made his discipline tolerable, himself adored. He found time to write some half-dozen books, poems, and many a judicious magazine article on the U.S. educational scene, meanwhile encouraging such literary talents as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson...
This week, after two years of leave of absence on special tasks, 67-year-old Christian Gauss gave up his deanship to have more time for teaching and literature. His successor: Marine Captain Francis R. B. "Frisco" Godolphin, Princeton '24. Godolphin had left his quiet spot as head of Princeton's Classics Department to spend two years in the Marines, saw action on Saipan, Tinian, and Kwajalein. His job: going well ahead of the fighting lines to direct bombers by radio...