Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right now," said a Siamese engineer last week to TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, "the Communists are digging quietly with shovels, instead of blasting with dynamite." The men with the shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The government gave the Siamese Communist party legal status in 1946 (to win Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader...
Gruin had TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle on hand, but the LIFE photographer-reporter team of Jack Birns and Roy Rowan, who had scored a beat with their eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane...
Ghost City. TIME & LIFE Correspondent Roy Rowan cabled this description of Mukden's last days: "Mukden is a ghost city. Freezing blasts of wind whistled down its broad, empty thoroughfares. Shop fronts and some of the pillboxes at main intersections were boarded up. Jagged walls in the sprawling Japanese factory areas, blasted by U.S. bombers during the war and later pillaged by Russian occupation forces in 1946, stood silhouetted against a steel-grey sky. Mukden, center of one of the world's potentially richest agricultural and industrial areas, looked as cold and desolate as the ragged half-frozen...
Rudy Cosentino has filled the gap left by fullback "Rip" Rowan's graduation. He works well on the quick openers that spearhead the Army...
...after Lau Yew, a Chinese who was once Billy's comrade in arms in the fight against the Japanese. The British considered Leader Lau Yew such a hero that they flew him to London for the 1946 victory celebration. Later Lau Yew became a rebel. LIFE Correspondent Roy Rowan accompanied the "killers squad" on their search for Lau Yew, cabled the following report...