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...power behind the presidency, but the truth seems to be that the couple act in concert; in her own right Madame Rhee is a clever, strong, ever-watchful helpmate. At home and in politics it is "the Rhees," a political relationship like that which once existed between Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...hour before the session began, Trujillo made his entrance, flanked by ten New York City cops, ten U.N. policemen and a seven-man flying squad of his own "aides." Vishinsky arrived later, practically unnoticed, with a mere handful of henchmen. Strictly business, the generalissimo swept into the headquarters building with outriders brushing reporters and newsreel photographers out of his path. Turning into a small lounge, Trujillo shook hands with Maurice Pate, executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, new U.S. delegate to the U.N. In a swift ceremony witnessed mainly by his aides...
...have been dogging the dictator's tracks ever since he landed in Washington 12 weeks ago, paraded back & forth with signs denouncing him as an "assassin" and "murderer." They also lugged a big black coffin, which is supposed to symbolize the fate of Trujillo's opponents. The generalissimo, making his departure after the fifteen-minute opening session, probably did not even see the pickets. Twenty cops and bodyguards surrounded him as he climbed into his limousine...
President Eisenhower's decision to remove the Seventh Fleet as defense for the Communist China mainland marked a complete repudiation of one of the strangest policies in the history of the U.S.: the Truman-Acheson policy of suppressing the Chinese Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...TIME'S 1936 choice: Wallis Warfield Simpson. In 1937, TIME'S Man and Wife of the Year were Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek...