Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the State Department's flaccid indecisiveness in the whole affair, the Chinese Communists had apparently bowed to international indignation and, more important, to their desire for diplomatic recognition and the right to represent China in the U.N. Ward's release came only a day after the U.S. appealed to 30 nations (including Russia) for help in freeing the consul general and his aides...
...Communists did not yield without slapping the U.S. in the face once again. At week's end, as Ward and his staff tried to arrange for transport out of China, Communist police descended on the consulate, made off with young...
...forced him to watch the trial of ten Japanese, Chinese and Koreans accused of "spying" for the U.S. No Americans were on trial, but that did not bother the people's court. Its verdict: the entire staff of the U.S. consulate would be deported along with Angus Ward...
...tramping the streets, he found a ramshackle, three-story building that he thought he could afford to rent. He and his wife scrubbed it from top to bottom, then painted and papered it. Out of their thrifty life savings of $10,000 they equipped classrooms, dining room, kitchen, isolation ward and dormitories. Then they named the school Laradon Hall, after Larry and Donald...
When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either...