Word: consular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week to begin the long voyage home...
...that our consular officials in Mukden have been released and there is presumably no need to send an American Legion task force to the Far East, the State Department must make its decision whether or not to recognize the Chinese Communist government. The U. S. has equivocated for four years; the issue can no longer...
...Chinese Communists are entering a long period of stress. They must cope with vast economic and technological problems, with provincial and local dissidents. If the U.S. recognizes the Red regime, it could maintain consular posts to observe the difficulties and possibly encourage opposition. Also, the presence of U.S. diplomats would tend to "inhibit" Russian moves to strengthen the Russian grip on China...
Earlier in the week, two other U.S. consular officials arrived in Tokyo after 14 months in the nominally Chinese Manchurian port of Dairen...
...long as the authorities remain silent, these political beliefs can be taken as the basis for the exclusion order. One striking indication that this is true is Shortliffe's story of how he was sharply questioned last May in the consular office in Toronto. What did he think about Indo-China? Would he prefer De Gaulle or the Communists to rule France? Did he believe in the overthrow of government by force...