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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, over the next four years, Stalin blocked Nationalist China's return to Manchuria; Stalin armed and otherwise abetted the Chinese Communists as they built up a decisive army in Manchuria; Stalin looted Manchuria of $2 billion worth of Japanese industrial equipment on which Chiang had counted for China's economic uplift. Then, in late 1949, two days after Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the Chinese Communist state, Stalin withdrew formal recognition from Chiang and gave it to his longtime Chinese prot...
...Everyone will agree on the importance of collaboration with Russia-now and in the future. It won't be worth a hoot, however, unless it is based on mutual respect and made to work both ways. I have sat at innumerable Russian banquets and become gradually nauseated by Russian food, vodka and protestations of friendship. Each person high in public life proposes a toast a little sweeter than the preceding one on Soviet-British-American friendship. It is amazing how those toasts go down past the tongues in the cheeks. After the banquets we send the Soviets another thousand...
...Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...extension of The Baptist Hour radio program to five new metropolitan areas, including New York City; a series of half-hour color-television programs; distribution of "pretested scripts" for live local TV programs to 30,000 Southern Baptist churches; construction of a $200,000 Radio-Television City at Fort Worth...
...proposition, Socratic and Christian, that the unexamined life is not worth living...