Word: weis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among India's many minorities are its 20,000 Chinese, a mere handful among India's 360 millions. Some of them have been distressed by Nehru's friendly gestures towards Communist China. Four weeks ago Li Wei-ping, a prominent merchant and former president of the Calcutta Chinese Chamber of Commerce, made a speech roundly denouncing Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Dr. C. S. Liu, who edits the Chinese-language daily, Chinese Journal of India, reported the speech in his paper. Last week the Indian government jailed Merchant Li without bail under a law called...
...Wei-yuan Huang, Research Fellow in Chemistry at the University, is a man who may never return to his home, his wife, and his friends. He, and four thousand other Chinese nationals in this country who share his fate, are the living casualties of a new kind of war: the diplomatic Cold War with Communist China. All these men have been trained in the technical sciences, and while few of them have done secret research, the government holds that their return to the Chinese mainland would be "prejudicial to the national interest...
...just, after I met, or in between, or in before, whenever I met Mr. Wei, or Mr. Du or Dr. Chen, or whatever the name of these distinguished Chinese gentlemen are, it was none of my worries to worry about them," she said discerningly. She was only interested, she said, in getting $100,000 as a commission on the sale of each of the three ships. Eventually she threw her own two tankers into the pot, too, and wound up with only $450,000, but was satisfied...
White flag in hand, a 28-year-old Chinese officer crossed into the allied lines one day last week, just bursting with talk. Lieutenant Fan Wei-ning cheerfully gave out vital facts on the officers and men in his division-their ages, their equipment, their battle plans. Then he asked for a map of the village where his division was based, and eagerly pinpointed supply dumps, command posts and gun positions...
...insisted that he could account for all funds in his hands. He and his chief aide, Colonel Hsiang Wei-hsuan, accused of "corruption and disloyalty," put their case in hands of Washington attorneys. They hoped to claim political asylum from...