Word: huan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
...Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in
which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
Crowning Irony. The crowning irony came this week when Nationalist Spokesman Shen Chang-huan felt constrained to dispel at least part of the heavy fog surrounding President Truman's statement on Formosa. Said Shen in a statement to the Chinese press: "I believe the U.S. has no territorial ambitions on Formosa." It was a statement that any local U.S. spokesman might have been expected to make, but of course none did. Any local U.S. diplomat who said anything reassuring to the Chinese government would have expected to lose...