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...north of the Yellow River. Purpose: to let them, instead of the Chinese Communists, take the territories abandoned by the defeated Japanese troops still in Manchuria, and seize the Japanese arms. With Dean Acheson's approval, this draft was rewritten by Director of Far Eastern Affairs John Carter Vincent, one of the Acheson group. The Vincent draft instructed Marshall to press Chiang into a coalition with the Chinese Communists...
Marshall demurred. He had more confidence in the general staff's estimate of the situation. The issue was resolved in a long conference between Marshall and Under Secretary Acheson. Terms of the resolution: General Marshall finally accepted what was essentially the Vincent-Acheson draft. With the blessing of the President, Marshall flew off on his errand...
...Jofroi, a prewar Pagnol comedy based on a story by Jean Giono, proves the brightest thing in the package. Jofroi (well played by Vincent Scotto) is a hidebound old peasant, suspicious, ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into...
...That." In his opening address, portly, plodding Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, did his best to lead Medina through the intricacies of the Government's case. But over & over again came the patient complaints from the bench: "I don't get that," "I must be kind of stupid," "I don't understand...
...Limited was derailed in Philadelphia in 1943, killing 79 people. More shocking, it brought the Long Island's death list for the year to 109, as many as had been killed in all U.S. crashes on scheduled U.S. airlines in 1950. New York's newly elected Mayor Vincent Impellitteri hurried home from Cuba to order an investigation. Governor Thomas E. Dewey-who had vetoed a legislative bill aimed at weeding out railroad engineers with bad safety records-called on the bankrupt line's two court-appointed trustees to resign. They stolidly refused. A wave of vehement indignation...