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...American in China who has most eased General George Marshall's ticklish mission with sound advice is a spare, aging missionary named John Leighton Stuart. In his 70 years, lively, thoughtful Dr. Stuart, one of the oldest and wisest of Old China Hands, has learned more about China, its mind, habits, languages, rulers and governments than most Chinese...
...invaluable education of Leighton Stuart really began in 1905 when, as a newly married, newly ordained Presbyterian minister, he returned from the U.S. as a missionary to the-country where he had been born, the son of a missionary. After eleven years of teaching the New Testament at the Nanking Theological Seminary, Stuart got the job that really suited him; he became president of China's famed No. i Christian university, American-endowed Yenching...
Last week, in a move that surprised the nation, the State Department and Congress, and delighted the Chinese, President Truman appointed Leighton Stuart U.S. Ambassador to China. Dr. Stuart will not supersede Marshall, who will remain in China indefinitely as U.S. Special Envoy, nor will he be Marshall's leg man. He will complement the General, suggest policy, warn, recommend...
...required meeting for all new students at New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock. Monday, A. Chester Hanford, Dean of the College, Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen and Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisors, and Keyes Metcalf, Director of University Library, will give the novice Harvard man information on the choice of studies, use of the library and other subjects that will help to a rapid orientation in the life of the University...
Walter L. Leighton...