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<| Just before withdrawal from Suchon on Sept. 23, 1950, North Korean Communists piled wood, packing cases and other combustibles around the outside of the crowded Suchon jail, drenched everything with gasoline and lighted the fire, in a case of wanton savagery reminiscent of the Nazis' rape of Oradour-sur...
After receiving a Ph.D, from the University of Berlin he did research at Kiel, spent 1929 as economic advisor to the Ministry of Railroads of the Nanking government in China (where he first began speaking English), and came to Harvard in 1931.
Career: After teaching English in Japanese schools and doing commercial work in Japan and China, Allison started with the Foreign Service in 1930. He has held a dozen diplomatic posts in the Far East. In 1938 in Nanking, he figured in a red-hot diplomatic incident when a Jap sentry...
Drab Living. The six revolutionary universities are at Peking, Nanking, Sian, Canton, Hankow and Kweiyang. Foremost among them is the North China Revolutionary University, located in an army barracks in Peking's western suburb. Last week I talked to a recent graduate who had just made his escape into...
Communist soldiers escorted Riberi from Nanking to the Hong Kong border. "I leave with sorrow," he said to those who came to meet him, "and my prayer is constantly for the Chinese people, for our priests, for our sisters and the faithful." There were special grounds for both sorrow and...