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...Senate, on the strength of a 1951 Internal Security Subcommittee investigation, withheld confirmation of his appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. (Senators objected to his connections with the Red-infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations and his editing of a 1949 State Department white paper which flatly blamed Chiang Kai-shek for the fall of China.) In effect, if not by design, Washington's nomination of Jessup to his new (and taxfree) null post constituted a final clearance...
Agreeing with Lindsay on this point, Owen Lattimore attempted to clarify the "popular misconceptions" regarding admission of Red China to the U.N. Lattimore, once an adviser to Chiang KaiShek, emphasized that China already has a seat in the U.N. The question is not one of admitting a new nation, but of expelling one group and accepting another as China...
...entrance of Red China into the U.N. will inevitably precipitate a crisis on Taiwan, Lattimore declared. Ejection of the Nationalist U.N. representatives might well deal a lethal blow to the prestige of the Chiang government...
...battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...enterprise but no trace of political democracy. The colony is run by the British governor, and only 20,000 specially selected citizens have any vote at all. Though U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt considered Hong Kong an embarrassing hangover from colonialism and twice urged Britain to return Hong Kong to Chiang Kai-shek's China, there is no irredentist sentiment among Hong Kong's Chinese, or even any agitation for independence. As they well know, an independent Hong Kong would be swallowed up by Red China in a matter of months...