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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hellish Treatment | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mukden Incident, Part II | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Public Opinion at Work | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...that our consular officials in Mukden have been released and there is presumably no need to send an American Legion task force to the Far East, the State Department must make its decision whether or not to recognize the Chinese Communist government. The U. S. has equivocated for four years; the issue can no longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New China | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

Current news reports would indicate that Russia may have inspired the Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Explains His Stand | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

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