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...Princeton's Christian Gauss, 68, judicious, quizzical, pince-nezed professor of modern languages, longtime Dean of the College. Gauss and three others, all retiring now, are the last of President Woodrow Wilson's 47 preceptors, appointed in 1905. Another: Edward Samuel Corwin, 68, professor of jurisprudence, historian of the Constitution and the Court, vigorous defender of Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan...
Christian Gauss, 67, noted Princeton nourisher of literary talent (F. Scott Fitzgerald's, Edmund Wilson's), 20-year Dean of the College till his retirement last October, was redecanized. His new post, honorary and created especially for him: Dean of Alumni...
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...
...Gauss resigned soon after Hurley's arrival. But Vincent went on and upward, became-by Byrnes's appointment-Far Eastern chief. Ambassador Hurley began to receive instructions which he considered detrimental to his mission and at variance with U.S. policy as he understood...
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...