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Raids. In Nanking one night the diplomatic corps was giving a dinner for U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson to celebrate his thirtieth year of diplomatic service. Shortly after midnight the bantering, toasting diners heard the sudden scream of sirens. They knew they were about to be raided from the air, but decided to stick it out. Through the moonlit sky roared a squad of Japanese bombers, plunked incendiary bombs on the capital's poorer districts. Three times they returned, until the more congested quarters of the city were in flames. One hundred and fifty coolies, trapped...
Reader Collier's information is interesting, even if not entirely accurate. Most George Washington classmates (1916) re-call J. Edgar Hoover's nickname as "Speedy," "Speed" or "Spee." Another District of Columbia and George Washington University boy who made good is U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson...
...begged and implored President Roosevelt for months to stop kiting the price of silver, desperately imposed the death penalty on Chinese caught smuggling out the vital metal-to sell it abroad at "Roosevelt prices." Last week the U. S. President did something for China, nominated U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson for the newly-created post of Ambassador...
Aggrieved must have been U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson, whose whole career has been spent in China, save when he served in the Far Eastern section of the State Department, who knows China from Szechwan to Kirin (California to Maine) and speaks Chinese as fluently as he speaks English. For he had long advocated giving China an embassy. Only consolation he had last week was that he would probably be upped from a $12,000 ministership to a $17,500 ambassadorship...
...Annis, Idaho, had the same kind of stony childhood and struggling education he writes about. After taking his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (1925), he went back to the University of Utah as instructor in English, then to New York University. With his second wife, Margaret Trusler, whom he married in 1929, he now lives on his father's ranch, near Ririe, Idaho. The titles for the first three volumes of his tetralogy were taken from his admired George Meredith (Modern Love...