Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus $600 million for U.S. occupation troops-insurance against Japan's turning to Communism. Chiang Kaishek, a onetime war ally of the U.S. and a notable opponent of Communism in China, might see some injustice in all this, but circumstances dictated policies. From the State Department point of view, the "overall situation" of China at present looked hopeless; Japan was a better proposition strategically. China's best hope was Al Wedemeyer...
...guerrilla force was announced by the government at Athens yesterday, after a disclosure that another smaller force from Albania had been repulsed and driven back to the border. Meanwhile Vasslli Oendramis, Greek ambassador to the United States, urged U.N. Security Council intervention at Lake Success in view of "drastically more serious" conditions on the Greek-Albanian frontier...
...Jean Fourcade of Strasbourg, a specialist, demonstrated a new method of ascertaining the respective positions of killed and killer in murders where a pistol is fired through a windowpane. Dr. Muller of Lille spoke on "Encouraging Toxicomania with the View of Inheriting Money." He cited the case of a British peer whose addiction to morphine had been fatally nurtured by his greedy relatives. The most striking report was made by four Yugoslav doctors on war crimes...
...Bombay, Dr. M. A. Chandary published a learned pamphlet expounding his view that the sun is not really...
Their "bird's-eye view of the world," as the Houston Post's Oveta Gulp Hobby termed it, made varying impressions on the globe-girdlers. Thomas H. Beck, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., had left prophesying war in three years; he returned "more convinced than ever that it is true." Scripps-Howard's dapper Roy Wilson Howard saw "palms up everywhere around the world," found everyone fearful of "the menace of Communism...