Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had switched allegiance to the Communists, called on other Chinese diplomats to join them against "warmongers." Radio Peiping was delighted, but the French government was not. It withdrew diplomatic recognition from the renegade nine, and the Nationalist government dispatched a smiling troubleshooter named Tuan Mao-Ian from the London embassy to take charge of the Paris situation...
...Tuan asked the nine to come back into the Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
Vienna is the best example of the country's unplanned future. Almost one-third of Austria's people live in the capital. Unlike Paris on London, however, the city is unproductive. Its men of substance are doctors, lawyers, scholars, shopkeepers, or government personnel, but not manufactures or industrialists. Its former marketing and trading revenue is virtually non-existent. The rest of the country cannot support it either in food or function...
...Louisville, Ky. and "assigned to breaking in Hillbillies." He got so lonesome for the sight of water that he started riding a ferry back and forth across the Ohio River "just to remember what it felt like." After his discharge, Albion traveled via Harvard to the Admiralty in London, where he turned out a Ph.D thesis for another naval historian, Professor Samuel Eliot Morison...
Other Harvard crews placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Star Class Finals at New London, third in the Brown Fall invitation Regatta, and third in the Freshman Dinghy Championship elimination races at M.I.T., thus qualifying for the finals in this event...