Word: lauchlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat, an expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash...
Last week Lauchlin Currie, back in Washington, was still at work on his report to President Roosevelt. The most retiring of the President's "anonymous" assistants, he would not say a word about his trip. But from Chungking bits of news about it came in as fast as the Clippers could fly the Pacific. There was no question about the effect on China of Lauchlin Currie's visit: Chinese thought it was wonderful. The Chinese had been heartened by this sign of U. S. interest, had given the President's emissary all honors and all opportunities...
...felt. There, on Washington's Birthday, Chinese and U. S. citizens, celebrating before pictures of Washington and Confucius (both wearing swords), hailed the ties between the two countries. It was a farewell for genial Ambassador Nelson Johnson, now Minister to Australia. On hand was grey, dry, statistical Lauchlin Currie, most anonymous of President Roosevelt's "anonymous" administrative assistants, sent to China last month on a mission like Harry Hopkins' to England. In Washington little-known Lauchlin Currie was known as the man who had never been in an airplane, as inflexibly unenthusiastic...
...ponder the U. S. role in world affairs: H. H. Kung of Chungking, Finance Minister of the Chinese Government. The U. S. had recently lent China $100,000,000, half of which was to bolster its skidding currency. President Roosevelt had just dispatched to Chung king his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to study the menace of Chinese inflation. In China, 28% uneasily occupied. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently had prevented internal disorder by disarming and disbanding the Comunist Fourth Route Army for unsubordination...
...Dispatched his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to Chungking, to help General Chiang Kai-shek bolster up Chinese currency...