Word: pact
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Released when Chiang Kai-shek negotiated a nonaggression pact with Russia in 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo was put in charge of rehabilitating a big district in Kiangsi which had been under Communist rule, and of reindoctrinating its 3,000,000 inhabitants. Even his detractors admit he was outstandingly successful. During World War II he ran a training school for political officers in Chungking. In Shang hai in 1948 he directed the drive to stabilize the gold yuan ; hundreds of black marketeers were arrested. His enemies say dozens were summarily executed...
Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
Caught between races in the East and West, the Cheese State eight rarely competes on its own waters. The 1946 pact was arranged as a stimulus to keep Wisconsin oarsmen coming East and still race at least once at home...
...running into trouble trying to get the Latin Americans to agree to anything like a strong line against Guatemala's fellow-traveling government. It is even having difficulty finding a suitable neighbor to take the lead in presenting the case under the 1947 Rio pact provision for joint measures against "an aggression which is not an armed attack...
April: Pravda will announce that Vyaslav Molotov has been arrested as an "enemy of the state." Enthusiastic spontaneous demonstrations in the Kiev sector will follow. After a suitable period, Molotov will confess to having been in the pay of the German General Staff since he negotiated the non-aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn...