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...Nationalists were driven from the mainland, had written a book about the generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Believing that there was no future for an independent Formosa, and that the best thing for all Chinese was a negotiated settlement with the Communists, he got an encouraging go-ahead from Peking, then wrote to Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo's son, in Taipei. "In this time of emergency, I have something important to tell you," he wrote, and he asked Chiang Ching-kuo to send a mutual acquaintance, whom he named, to Hong Kong...
...Go-Ahead. The day after the House passed the trade measure, Boggs presented his case to the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee, meeting in private session. Snapped he: "Let's not be stupid about this." If the Democrats do not pass a tax cut this year, said Boggs, the Republicans will surely do so in the election year of 1956. "Anybody who does not think so," cried he, "is just wrong. Let's be smart and beat them to it." Sam Rayburn, sitting with the committee, listened for two hours, then gave the go-ahead...
...German forces come under NATO, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will supervise their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German soldiers can be in uniform by next spring...
...politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...
PARTNERSHIP POWER dams may be approved for Idaho's Clearwater River. Federal Power Commission has given Pacific Northwest Power Co. (a combine of four private power companies) a preliminary go-ahead on dams at Bruce's Eddy and Penny Cliffs (combined capacity: 532,000 kw.; estimated cost: $320,351,000). In keeping with the Administration's partnership policy (TIME, July 26), the Federal Government may share flood-control costs...