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In Berlin, the airlift planes droned on, balking the Reds' attempt to starve the city. The Chinese Communists marched toward Nanking.
Washington called Peking's story "a bare-faced lie." Dave Barrett spoke up from Formosa: "I never at any time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe...
No sailorman's drink was ever more fairly earned. On April 20 the Amethyst had been steaming up the Yangtse River on a routine mission to Nanking. On the left bank lay the retreating Nationalist army; on the right the Communists were poised for an assault crossing. Suddenly, about...
The Communists promised not to reopen fire so long as the ship stayed where she was anchored. From her new skipper, Lieut. Commander John Simon Kerans, who came down from the embassy at Nanking, they demanded an admission that the Amethyst had provoked the attack. This was to be the...
Six months later, Kan reappeared in Nanking explaining limply that he had been "re-educated by the magnanimous people's government." He went back to his storytelling, but somehow his heart did not seem to be in it. Then one day he told his fans the story of a...