Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communique issued at the end of Dulles' visit: "The Government of the Republic of China considers that the restoration of freedom to its people on the mainland is its sacred mission [and that] the principal means of successfully achieving its mission is the implementation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, and not the use of force."* Free China spokesmen later insisted that this declaration did not bind Chiang to hold back if a Hungary-type uprising broke out on the mainland. For the U.S.'s part, Dulles explicitly recognized in the joint...
...legislative committee headed by Sen. Phillip G. Bowker (R-Brookline) recently exonerated the Administration of any wrongdoing in this case, but Gibbons has termed this a "whitewash...
...Chiang's immediate response was to announce that he rejected the appeal "firmly, vigorously and unequivocally.") In Taipei last week Chiang Kai-shek told crowds celebrating "Double Ten"-the Oct. 10 anniversary of the foundation in 1911 of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Republic-that the cease-fire was just another piece of Communist "political treachery." But in Warsaw the U.S. pressed the unyielding Chinese Communist bargainers for an extension of the ceasefire, and at week's end Peking announced that it had decided to keep the guns silent for another 14 days...
...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...
...fishing or by working at the nearby naval torpedo factory. About the only vehicles that drove through its shabby streets, until about five years ago, were the creaking buses that carried the laborers back and forth to work. Then, for no apparent reason at all, "St. Trop" (pronounced Sen-tro) suddenly became chic. Today the boom is at a height: Saint-Tropez has become the favorite Riviera resort of France's fashionable eccentric...