Word: pinged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans sat down and dealt with the Reds directly. The small U.S. party was headed by U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (and former State Department adviser on the Korean war); the Chinese group was run by Wang Ping-nan, secretary general of the Peking delegation at Geneva...
...addition to the library, Bundy also announced other changes, in Dudley. The small dining hall will be enlarged during the summer, the ping pong room will be improved, and a new game room in the Apley Court basement will be built...
Another Geneva figure Beal recognized was the delegation's secretary, Wan Ping-nan, "a heavy, sinister-looking, ' German-educated Chinese whom I had known in Nanking." One member of the delegation was unidentified by the West for the first three days. On the fourth day of the conference, Beal cabled: "I was able to identify this man for the American delegation as Chang Wen-chin, who served Chou as secretary and English interpreter during the Marshall mission and is in the same capacity here...
...then asked how I could get in touch with my old acquaintance Wan Ping-nan, the secretary of the Chinese delegation. Said Chang: "We have a liaison office at the Beau Rivage. A certain Mr. Kuo is in charge...
Says Beal: "I made it a point to visit the Beau Rivage Hotel as soon as possible. But there the certain Mr. Kuo said, 'I don't think I can find Wan Ping...