Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...
ARTICLE "SHOWMAN AND SCHOLAR IN IDAHO" [TIME, AUG. 10] CONTAINS UNTRUE STATEMENT TO THE EXTENT OF BEING LIBELOUS. I HAVE NEVER CALLED OUR PRESIDENT A TOOL OF THE BANKERS NOR DEFAMED HIM IN ANY WAY. I HAVE NEVER SAID I MADE MONEY CAMPAIGNING. . . . THERE ARE FOUR MEN OPPOSING ME, AND THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ARTICLE WILl RECEIVE FEWEST VOTES. LETTER FOLLOWS ENUMERATING FALSE STATEMENTS. I DEMAND APOLOGY OR WILL TAKE ACTION AGAINST YOUR MAGAZINE...
...claims on China. But the U.S. and Britain, intent on fighting the Axis, have neglected the psychological front among a billion Asiatics. China is fighting as a free nation, but India, demanding freedom, is being kept from it by wartime realities and political confusion (see col. 3). Chinese Scholar Lin Yutang last week gave one appraisal of the situation: "If it appears to the Asiatics and the South Americans and the people of the countries subjected by the Axis that we are fighting for empire and not for liberty ... if faith in the integrity of our cause is shaken...