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Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement...
...student at Williams College, Terris Moore dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest. That dream never came true, but he did make the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Bona (16,420 ft.) and was a member of the only party to reach the top of China's Mt. Minya Konka...
Mencken, with practiced cynicism, once tried to figure himself out. In a piece called Sabbath Meditation he said: "My essential trouble, I sometimes suspect, is that I am quite devoid of what are called spiritual gifts. That is to say, I am incapable of religious experience, in any true sense ... I dislike any man who is pious, and all such men that I know dislike me." The Chrestomathy is liberally sprinkled with his truculent gibes at all faiths, but none feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such...
...years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn on him when he struck out at the New Deal, socialism...
...Communists were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow. Only last month he voiced a tentative welcome to Mao Tse-tung's Communist Liberation Army as it took over Shanghai. Wrote Gould in his breezy Post: "Shanghai is essentially non-political . . . What it hopes is that a true 'liberation' has now come." It hadn't. Gould found the city's new bosses as hostile to a free press as any other Communists would...