Word: huan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...General Assembly, where neutralism is increasingly accepted as the power of negative thinking, Nationalist China's Foreign Minister reminded the world last week that involvement is not a dirty word. Said youthful (44), energetic Shen Chang-huan, a University of Michigan graduate and longtime foreign affairs specialist: "There is nothing wrong when a new and emerging state adopts a policy of neutrality or nonalignment. There is too much to do at home and too little time in which to do it to allow involvement in power struggles. But I submit that neutralism does not mean the repudiation of moral...
Next morning, Chen, along with Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan, was back at the White House for a more business like discussion of the key question that worried his government: What really is the U.S. attitude toward Red China's admission to the U.N.? Kennedy made it clear that the U.S. attitude had not softened, at one point told Chen: "Even if you wanted the Chicoms in the United Nations, we would still oppose it for our own reasons...
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...