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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China, the most important U.S. ally in the world outside Western Europe, was gone. This chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
...caused the disease and the disaster? The State Department's answer, said Dean Acheson, was "a frank record of an extremely complicated and most unhappy period in the life of a great country." The record, reviewing U.S. relations with China back to 1844, prefaced by a 15-page lawyer's brief by Acheson, and displaying some studied flourishes of erudition, added up to a savage indictment of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Acheson summarized...
...which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst legend: "Unspeakable sadness is burned deep in the eyes, the hopeless expression of Fritz, caught in torturers' trap...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...
...weeks' course at the Pentagon's Reading Improvement Laboratory, their speed winged upward, though their comprehension dipped a bit to 79-3%- One lieutenant colonel had boosted his score from 225 words a minute to 516; a captain had jumped from 584 to 1,034, practically a page at a glance. Average progress: 292 to 488 w.p.m...