Word: warded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
...Consul in Peiping relayed the report to Washington. From Ward's skimpy recapitulation and the splutterings of the Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
Breaststrokes Larry Ward and Chuck Hoolzer and distance men Ted Norris and Jerry Gorman are the missing persons. Ex-captains Gorman '48-'40) and Hoolzer ('47-'48) and Norris graduated in June, and Ward is unavailable for personal reasons...
...game will be played for the benefit of two children's wards in a San Francisco hospital. The day before the game, the West squad will go through one ward and the East through the other, with each child "adopting" a player...
George N. Craig, National Commander of the American Legion, hotly demanded that the U.S. send troops to rescue Ward and his companions if the Chinese Communists do not release him. The remedy involved not only risking Ward's life, but war. This week Dean Acheson appealed to 30 nations, including Russia, to protest the conduct of the Chinese Communists...