Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your "Report from Munich" you quote U.S. Governor van Wagoner as having said: "Prison records aren't always bad politically," excusing thus his policy of giving office to convicted Nazis. The philosophy behind these words ... is the very essence of Naziism and-as many think-also of Communism. You cannot cure Germany if you bring to her democracy only as a political form without any ethical basis. Opportunism",, in whatever form it disguises itself, must in the end inevitably lead to nihilism and annihilation...
...finally persuaded the President to let him quit as ambassador to Moscow. Weary and homesick after three years of war duty as chief of staff to Ike Eisenhower, and three years of cold-war duty near the Kremlin, "Beedle" Smith will move to New York's Governor's Island as commander of the First Army. The Moscow job, said the White House, was wide open...
When North Carolina's Senator J. Melville Broughton died early this month, after only four months in office, the pressure squads closed in fast on Governor Kerr Scott to push their favorite candidates. But last week Kerr Scott tore up their lists and shook Tarheel professionals to their political roots. The man he chose for the seat was the University of North Carolina's scrappy little President Frank Porter Graham (TIME, Jan. 3), who has made a career of fighting old Southern prejudices...
While Foo debated where to go, Premier Ho and the rest of his cabinet picked five men to carry Nationalist China's peace hopes to the Communists. As nominal head of the delegation they named General Chang Chih-chung, former governor of Sinkiang Province and commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador...
...governor of Minnesota spoke in defense of the "natural rights of man" in the face of threats of "rule by force." He called for a "MacArthur Plan in Asia" to provide at least a billion dollars a year to aid the fight against Communism. He also asked the West to wage "the contest for the minds of men" with a "continuous, widespread, and dramatic program of printed messages from free men to all mankind...