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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week to begin the long voyage home...
...Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where all political signals come in loud and clear while Harry Truman is in residence, the President told close friends he thought Ike was 1) a wonderful general 2) an amateur politician building hard toward the 1952 presidential race...
...Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...
...them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt in the jury's mind: Wadleigh said that he might conceivably have seen eight of the documents while he was in the State Department...
...Experiment is two-fold. The long-range aspect of the probram is to "create an atmosphere" of goodwill between nations in which the world's problems may be solved peacefully. The second aim, which is really a means toward the overall goal, is to promote friendship and understanding between American students and their foreign counterparts and to permit students to study the people and culture of one country each summer...