Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
Last week the principality was bracing itself against an even direr threat to its basic industry-the emergence of a Monegasque Communist Party. Its program, subscribed to by all 13 members, declared that gambling is immoral and will be abolished immediately after the triumph of the proletarian revolution...
...change that. The injuries are still there; but for a change, the players are, too. Backfield prospects aren't exactly cluttering up Soldiers Field these afternoons but you see them without straining your eyes. Working from a T means that every back has to be a potential threat, and that is exactly the way it is going to be this fall--as it looks from here...
...switched into the backfield as practice started this fall. He started in the quarterback slot, but with the continued absence of Petrillo has ended up an probable starter at tailback, Behind him are Bill Jackson 1945 letterman at quarterback, and Jim Noonan, onetime Brookline High triple-threat, so that even with Petrillo out of action the position is moderately deep in reserves...
...week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...