Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist war-criminal broadcast-a sweeping condemnation of the entire Nationalist leadership (TIME, Jan. 3). Angrily the Gimo cried: "After all I have done for China, to be called a criminal! How can we talk with such people?" Vice President Li's name was also on the Red blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace rumors that sugar-coat a poison designed...
...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...
...clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile at her dapper defender, Major Luis Albarracin. Only flaw in her appearance was the dark line at the roots of her blonde hair. She gets special treatment at Madrid's women's prison...
Veteran Cinemactor Charles Boyer, now breaking in on Broadway in Red Gloves, was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, for founding in Los Angeles a nonprofit cultural institution dedicated to French-American friendship...
...Porter has commuted for years between show business and the showiest international society. A riding accident broke both his legs in 1938, but, having gritted through 30 operations, he can now get around without a cane. Among his hit musicals: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue. Having launched what may prove his biggest hit, he plans a new show for the same producers in the fall-but first he will motor on the Continent and cruise in the Mediterranean...