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Cardinal Spellman was greeted in Formosa by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, reported that 300 Catholic Chinese prisoners of war in Korea had begged him to try to get them to Formosa to join the Nationalist troops...
Died. Joseph ("Jo") Davidson, 68, bearded portrait sculptor of celebrities (Madame Chiang Kaishek, D. H. Lawrence, Lloyd George, F.D.R., Gandhi, Mussolini), sometime political dabbler (cochairman of the Progressive Citizens of America in 1947, co-chairman of the Wallace-for-President Committee in 1948) ; of a heart attack; in Tours, France. Born of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's lower East Side, Davidson began as a newsboy. In 1907 he headed for Europe with a $40 stake to study art. Since 1910 he had shuttled busily and profitably between the U.S. and Europe. His most important commission: bronze busts...
...have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost of war. In any case...
...eradicated, of the intelligence and specialized knowledge of the Far East which he could contribute to its councils. The hachet men of the Chinese Lobby have now succeeded in disqualifying for public service almost every American of stature who has shown the slightest deviation from absolute devotion to Chiang Kaishek...
...eradicated, of the intelligence and specialized knowledge of the Far East which he could contribute to its councils. The hachet men of the Chinese Lobby have now succeeded in disqualifying for public service almost every American of stature who has shown the slightest deviation from absolute devotion to Chiang Kaishek...