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The coup was businesslike and icy on both sides. Nobody was arrested. Consul General Clubb destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai...
"If you want a good life, go into the foreign service," Robert Anderson, recently returned from four years of duty in Shanghai and Nanking, told an audience of 150 persons at the Union last night.
Appointed to the Foreign Service as an auxiliary in 1946, Anderson rose to a position as assistant attache in Nanking inside of a year. He returned from the Far East only recently.
For the stubborn, aging (63) leader, the flight across the sampan-flecked Strait of Formosa was a time for bitter remembrance. For China, and the world, it was the end of an era. A quarter of a century ago, with Sun Yat-sen's mantle on his shoulders, young...
To make her dramatic, last-minute plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her...