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...representatives of the East, Dr. Pei-Moo Ku, of the M.I.T. aeronautics department, and S. Mukherji of Calcutta, who is studying food technology at the Institute, will add further to the cosmopolitan nature of the gathering in discussing UNESCO's value to the Orient...
...senseless" negotiations with peace emissary Dr. Leighton Stuart, and accused the U.S. of "complicity" with the Chinese Government in fanning the civil war. He flatly rejected a renewed Government offer to participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force? If so, they will prolong bloodshed and create chaos...
...deserted Chang Tso-lin to join with Wu Pei-fu, war lord rival of Chang Tso-lin. He rejoined Chang Tso-lin and served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang...
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...trying to force his way past the Taku forts on the Pei-ho River, British Admiral Hope was wounded, had his gunboats all but shot out of the water by the Chinese "rabble" and British prestige was seriously endangered...