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...evacuees and their baggage waiting at the Shanghai docks. Last week in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson decided to call it quits: all plans for a sea rescue from Shanghai were off. He would, he said, ask the Communists to let the Americans travel overland to Tientsin or Hong Kong and try to get private shipping facilities from there...
That same day, in Hong Kong, 83 Shanghailanders (including four U.S. citizens) walked down the gangplank of a Danish freighter and onto British soil. The travelers had gone by rail from Shanghai 700 miles north to Tientsin and thence 900 miles south to Hong Kong by ship. Their report on Communist Shanghai described a slowly dying city...
...coup was businesslike and icy on both sides. Nobody was arrested. Consul General Clubb destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...
...force in Shanghai, was 19 when the Communists swept into his native city last year. Afraid to stay, he stowed away for the U.S. on the American President liner General Gordon. He was found, put ashore in San Francisco, sent back across the Pacific on a freighter bound for Tientsin. He jumped ship in Japan, was surrendered to the U.S. Army and put back on the U.S.-bound General Gordon. Last week in San Francisco immigration authorities were waiting for another ship on which to re-deport him to China. Lawyers of the American President Line shuddered at an awful...
...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...