Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime service as a U.S. Army liaison officer with the Chinese Nationalists. Both were popular; Wong served for a year as president of the Stockton Exchange Club. But when national headquarters in Toledo heard about Ting and Wong, it demanded their expulsion. Reason: Exchange's charter limits membership to "male, white business and professional...
...week's end reports that Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill now favors delay in bringing up the question of U.N. membership for Red China (see FOREIGN NEWS) were circulated in official Washington. Previously, Churchill had warned U.S. officials that there probably would be a move for Communist China's entry this fall...
...their hands tied behind their backs to become the forgotten men, while the bloodstained hands of the Communist murderer are clasped in fraternal greeting by our allies in the United Nations Building in New York?" Then he took his position: "On the day that Communist China is voted into membership into the United Nations, I shall resign my majority leadership in the Senate so that ... I can devote my full efforts ... to terminate United States membership in that organization and our financial support...
...Bernard Peters incident: "In 1949 Dr. Oppenheimer testified before a closed session of the House Un-American Activities Committee about the Communist Party membership and activities of Dr. Bernard Peters. A summary of Dr. Oppenheimer's testimony subsequently appeared in a newspaper, the Rochester Times-Union. Dr. Oppenheimer then wrote a letter to that newspaper. The effect of that letter was to contradict the testimony he had given a Congressional committee...
...poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1929 called it "the greatest measure of self-preservation yet taken by Europeans." He still thinks well...