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...most important undercurrent now is almost universal uncertainty. The most fundamental change is in the city government. Foreign control by the taipans-businessmen-is no more. The old, British-dominated municipal council is gone. The mayor is plump, round-faced, impassive Chien Ta-chun, an old follower of the Generalissimo. Some 20 Chinese councilmen run the municipal departments, amid a plenitude of teacups, basins, hot towels and hot-water thermos jugs (the Chinese believe in working comfortably). You still see the picturesque bearded Sikh policemen directing traffic, but they will be repatriated. U.S. MPs and Shore Patrols are around...
...through a carefully selected emissary and through dropped leaflets, that . . . such firing must be stopped. . . . Should firing . . . continue, you are authorized to take appropriate military measures. Your warning and action should include necessary measures to ensure the safety of innocent persons." General Wedemeyer sent copies of his order to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and to General Chou Enlai, chief Communist representative in Chungking...
Somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, said a report current in Europe, a secret conference recently took place. In the chair was Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. Present were Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, Red Army occupation chief in Hungary, and a group of Soviet Ambassadors and Balkan experts. The object of the meeting was to reshape Soviet policy for the Balkans and eastern Europe. Reported decisions: i) the Red Army will be withdrawn by the end of next year and civilian control will be substituted; 2) Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria must be bound to the Soviet economy by stringent economic agreements; 3) nervous opposition...
...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...
Today he puts on a show combining the outstanding features of a waterfront goon squad and Hollywood. Generalissimo Trujillo's car sports a five-starred, solid-gold license plate. Newspapers and radio hysterically shout his praise. Statues of him litter the land. An electric sign once glittered: "God and Trujillo...