Word: tuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff members publicly announced that they had switched allegiance to the Communists, called on other Chinese diplomats to join them against "warmongers." Radio Peiping was delighted, but the French government was not. It withdrew diplomatic recognition from the renegade nine, and the Nationalist government dispatched a smiling troubleshooter named Tuan Mao-Ian from the London embassy to take charge of the Paris situation...
Politely, Tuan asked the nine to come back into the Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
Sadly, Troubleshooter Tuan considered the causes of the diplomats' defection. "It was not that the staff of this embassy has not been paid since last June," he mused. "It has been demonstrated that Chinese diplomats can go unpaid for a whole year without damage to morale. It is perhaps a desire to keep in touch with the homeland, perhaps a political disagreement...
...Terrace. In Batavia last week some of the old, prewar hallmarks of empire were still present. The tuan besar (Dutch for pukka sahibs) sat in their white linen suits and drank fiery Bols gin on the terrace of the Harmonie Club. Every now & then in the evening their talk was disturbed by a bullet whizzing by from the lines outside the city...
...April 21, entitled "Sarawak," you attribute to me the authorship of a book entitled Relations and Complications, which you say reveals the details of the Raja's courtship of me and our marital relations. I did not write the book. It was authored by the wife of the Tuan Muda (Captain Bertram Brooke), my brother-in-law, and it does not contain any details of the type you refer...