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Word: wu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week members of the U.N. Security Council bowed to the intransigence of Red China's General Wu Hsiu-chuan (see WAR IN ASIA) and wound up their discussion of the Korean and Formosan questions. Fatalistically, the representatives of the free world heard Russia's Jacob Malik veto a resolution ordering Communist China to end her intervention in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Taking Stock | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

This week U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie decided to hold a small dinner party. On the guest list were General Wu and U.N. delegates from Britain, Sweden, Israel and Pakistan. The process of conciliation had not yet gone so far that anyone quite dared to ask a U.S. representative to break bread with General Wu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Taking Stock | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...head of the Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf of papers from his pocket and handed them to the Chinese leader. A few minutes later Wu distributed the same papers among waiting newsmen. On each sheet was a copy of what purported to be Wu's own first public statement to peace-loving people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Out the Carpet | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Three days later Wu made his first appearance before a U.N. meeting. Wu and two of his assistants strode into a morning session of the Political & Security Committee while Russian Delegate Andrei Vishinsky was charging the U.S. with aggression against Formosa. With a broad smile, Vishinsky interrupted his speech to welcome "the legal representatives of the government of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Out the Carpet | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Chinese bull by the horns. Entezam wanted to name a seven-nation committee to study the question of whether Nationalist or Communist delegates should represent China in the U.N. Under Russian pressure, Entezam decided to forget his plan temporarily. Like everything else, it would have to wait for Wu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for Lefty | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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