Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Hall Paxton, U.S. consul general at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang Province, was eager to take his well-earned leave. Washington had granted permission, but there was still a question: How to get out of Tihwa? The Chinese Communist armies were pressing close. Chinese air service...
One of the thorniest problems of the conference was the public debt incurred by the Dutch administration in Indonesia, which the new republic would have to take over. The Dutch had originally set the figure at 6.3 billion guilders ($1.7 billion), but the U.N. Commission on Indonesia, which hovered anxiously...
Last week, as the delegates solemnly signed the nine sheets of paper spread out on the green baize table in The Hague's medieval Ridderzaal, The Netherlands formally relinquished her 300-year rule over her rich island empire. There seemed to be at least a fair chance that the...
The optimism heard at The Hague found only a faint echo some 8,000 miles away at Jogjakarta, the makeshift capital of the Indonesian Republic. As news of the agreement crackled in over the shortwave radio last week, there was increasing discontent among the nationalists. A leader of the Labor...
Last week, as the Red armies of China swept unopposed across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony...