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Dread of impending shame weighed with crushing force on Cheng Guan Lim, Chinese engineering student at the University of Michigan. He was doing badly in physics and math, thought he was sure to flunk out. Soon there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...
...Action Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied: "I can't answer that because the committee would not like...
Although an immediate unanimous diplomatic rupture with the Axis had been thwarted by Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically...