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...paired: Kennedy for, Johnson against). In April 1955, Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend Quemoy and Matsu." The President sent Admiral Arthur Radford, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the then Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson on a mission to Taipei to discuss Formosan defenses with their old friend Chiang, and, privately, to try to get Chiang to reduce his Quemoy forces. On that, Chiang turned them down...
...morning in more formal and ceremonies, Princess read the Queen's message Nigeria's independence and country's entry into the , the Prime Minister expressed in receiving the Instruments which are the of Nigeria's Independence," James Robertson was sworn in Nigerian Chief Justice as the Governor-General of the Nigerian Federation. In a and a half he will be succeeded man who remains the still idol of the masses as the of Nigerian nationalism, Dr. Azikiwe. When the latter or his name is mentioned the breaks out into a chant of Z-e-e-e-k." It remains...
Married. Oscar ("Big O") Robertson, 21, University of Cincinnati Negro basketball star, history's highest-scoring college player; and Yvonne Crittenden, 25, a teacher; in Cincinnati...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, 65, Australian combat veteran of both world wars; after a heart operation; in Melbourne. As British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan from 1946 to 1951, Robertson upset American plans for a quiet observance of the third anniversary of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima, bluntly told Hiroshima's citizens: "This disaster was your own fault . . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
Skirting Justice. In Vancouver, B.C., Motorist James Robertson, 22, accused of leaving the scene of an accident, told the court that "I was afraid my wife would find out I had been out with another woman," won a dismissal...