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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...ended as quickly as possible and a peace treaty drawn up, with Canada participating. One of his most significant remarks touched on Canada's relations with Latin America. Said Pearson: "We should broaden and deepen our association with the Latin republics of this hemisphere." That was the nearest any cabinet minister had ever come to saying that Canada should join the Pan-American Union...
...wasn't even close. Despite the opposition of most of the city's newspapers and two rival candidates, O'Dwyer piled up 1,264,600 votes-308,000 more than his nearest opponent, Republican Reformer Newbold Morris. Only two Republicans were elected to city offices. Triumphant Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer had his own explanation: "It means that New York City is a New Deal and a Fair Deal town. It means that, while the people of this city are not organized, labor is organized, and the people have confidence in any one in whom organized...
When Mrs. Lawson died a year later, Gladys went on alone. Once her converts were formed into groups, Gladys Aylward, who belongs to no denomination, saw to it that they joined the nearest Christian mission. Some became Baptists, some Methodists. Says she: "I work kind of alongside everyone. We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're sprinkled or immersed...
Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors...