Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world will escape the horror of extensive famines in China within the next few years. But from the world point of view, these may be not only desirable but indispensable. A Chinese population that continued to increase at a geometric rate could be a global calamity. The [peace] mission of General Marshall in this unhappy land was called a failure. Had it succeeded, it might well have been a disaster...
...Mohr, Army observers in Sunchon, narrowly escaped death. The rebel sergeant assigned to kill them was an old friend, who had drunk beer with them in their billet many times. He took the two officers into a field, fired into the ground and then led them to the Presbyterian Mission of Dr. John Curtis Crane, who was barricaded in with his wife and four other missionaries...
Many Republicans have harshly criticized the Marshall mission of two years ago, which attempted to bring both sides together in a coalition government. Now as then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
Dartmouth didn't wait for the Colonel to get mad. It hastily sent 2,000 key alumni a fill-in on what was up. Correspondent Griffin, the Hanover Bulletin pointed out sympathetically, "is a pleasant fellow, but there was no doubt . . . he had been sent on a mission and that he was mostly interested in proving a point. For example, he said . . . 'if the Colonel says to do a story to prove that the moon is green, we go out and prove...
...school's embarrassed Indian Christian headmaster wrote soothingly to the press, passing the buck to his sponsors-the United Church of Northern India (a coalition of Protestant mission churches...