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Intrusion. The only crime the Communists accused them of, said the three, was "intruding into China's territorial waters." Under questioning, they insisted to Red officers that the Kert never touched Chi nese waters, was well within international territory when a Red gunboat took them in tow. But the Communists were not satisfied. First the three were taken to a detention and interrogation center for seven months. Then, handcuffed and blindfolded, they were moved to separate cells in a Canton jail. In the tiny (6 ft. by 11 ft.) concrete cells each one also had a Chinese cellmate...
...works hard at being a radio teacher of English, which he interlards with American slang dating back to the '20s. "You bet your life!" a Hirakawa-trained Japa-nese will cry, and "Atta girl!" and "Boy oh boy!" Nicknamed "Uncle Come-Come" because the theme song of his weekday program is an adaptation of the old Japanese children's song Come, Come, Everybody, Joe teaches his listeners about 30 new words each show. He uses short dialogues that have such everyday applications as giving road directions to a stranger or shopping in a department store. Every Friday...
...Charge d'Affaires in Chungking, Atcheson was charged with insubordination by his superior, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, because he had recommended U.S. Lend-Lease aid to the Chi nese Communists in the face of the avowed U.S. policy of helping the Nationalist Government. Atcheson along with such other Foreign Service hands as John Carter Vincent, thought and urged that the U.S. could get along with the Chinese Communists. Although he was later defended by Secretary of State Byrnes, he was called home at Hurley's request...
Payne takes no partisan stand on Chi nese politics, and so avoids the pros & cons of the Kuomintang-Communist feud. His concern is with the people and their land. He is as sensitive to the landscape as a super-polychromatic film. "I am obsessed," he writes, "with life and death at their sharpest points...
...important concessions. . . . I believe that . . . an agreement, not temporary in character but one which will ensure long-term peaceful reconstruction, will emerge." Mao refused to contemplate deadlock and bloody civil war. He declared emphatically: "I do not believe that the negotiations could break down. Under whatever condition, the Chi nese Communist Party will persist in a policy of avoiding civil war. There may be difficulties, but they will be overcome...