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...Lake Success one day last week, Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp* announced that, by official U.S. estimate, Russia keeps between eight and 14 million people in slave labor camps. Semen Tsarapkin, Russia's representative to ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), coolly ignored the charge; no one else seemed to care either. The world had read too many statistics of death and misery...
...other news of Diplomat Thorp, see THE HEMISPHERE...
LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (three vols., 2,239 pp.)-Edited by Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson, Henry Seidel Canby-Macmillan...
...Information Service's bulletins to China (framed by the State Department) sounded quite different. In its account of the China hearings, USIS gave a niggling 17 lines to Wedemeyer, a fat 68 to Willard Thorp and William Walton Butterworth Jr., State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China...
...high price of high-frequency, coaxial cable in the past has made the wiring of the Yard impossible. Before Christmas, the Network made an abortive attempt to reach freshman receivers via regulation cable, but broadcasting signals were absorbed before they could travel between the transmitter in Win thorp House and yard radios...