Word: generale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Communists had apparently bowed to international indignation and, more important, to their desire for diplomatic recognition and the right to represent China in the U.N. Ward's release came only a day after the U.S. appealed to 30 nations (including Russia) for help in freeing the consul general and his aides...
This week Monty was to address the English-Speaking Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
...President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without...
...first time at the bar of world opinion. Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...
Tsiang urged a moral judgment against Russia, a denial of aid and recognition to the Chinese Communists. "Let the General Assembly say to the millions of fighters for freedom in China: 'We are with...