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MacArthur promptly appointed his old right-hand airman, General George C. Kenney, as tactical air commander in the war against Japan. Bristle-haired George Kenney promised to attack "from 10,000 feet and from 10 feet" 24 hours...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
...more practical vein, the Chung Yang Jih Pao added that nine out of ten U.S. cars brought to China will be left there after the war, and all these cars are built for right-hand driving...
...What do you think Plaridel thinks of right-hand traffic?" I shouted over the din. ."All same," he answered...
...Right-Hand Men. With Harry Truman in the White House, there would be no room for Franklin Roosevelt's "anonymous" assistants, nor for the advice and influence of Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Judge Sam Rosenman, and others of the inner New Deal circle...