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...Formosa, the Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
...wintry day in 1939, a short, thick-chested man who said he was a mechanic and looked as if he might be, signed the register at Istanbul's Continental Hotel as Spiridon Yanko Mekas. Mekas, who had just returned from Moscow on a Canadian passport, loafed around the lobby for nearly three months before he went on to Yugoslavia to make history under a different alias: Tito. Last week Marshal Tito-preceded by 200 armed bodyguards -returned to Istanbul for the first time since he checked out of the Continental 14 years...
Last week Winnington's status finally got official recognition from the British Foreign Office. When he applied at the British consulate in Peking for a renewal of his passport so that he could cover the Geneva Far Eastern Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington...
...matter who was hurt. Next morn ing Pavone resigned. Foreign Minister Pic cioni sent his resignation to Scelba, and it seemed likely that Scelba would accept it. Scelba appointed Minister Without Portfolio Raffaele de Caro, a Liberal, to make a full investigation, ordered Montagna's passport lifted, and an investi gation of Montagna's income-tax returns. Montagna, silent up till then, threatened to start talking. "I may cause the end of the world," he pouted...
...heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport to his 1 5-year-old son now living with Wu's parents. "It is awful...