Word: washington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Tsiang's appeal sounded like Nationalist China's swan song: London, Paris and Washington would probably soon follow Moscow's lead in recognizing the Chinese Red regime. This week, U.S. delegate Ambassador Philip Jessup sidestepped China's cry for judgment. In a vague, high-sounding alternative resolution, Jessup proposed that U.N. members pledge themselves not to interfere in China's domestic affairs, nor seek special privileges or spheres of influence...
...partner in the Cologne banking firm of Salomon Oppenheim & Co., and, unlike many a Ruhr magnate, no Nazi supporter; he acts as Adenauer's economic counsel. The other is boyish-looking, 45-year-old Herbert Blankenhorn, a former German diplomat who served in the prewar German embassy in Washington; his task is to smooth Adenauer's relations with the Allies...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...
...executive committee of the National Interfraternity Conference had omitted the touchy question from the agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...
...presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth...