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...ratify. Radio Peking let forth a blast by Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. Just to make sure it would reach home to a land which does not recognize Red China diplomatically, Chou cabled his message, in plain, uncoded English and delivered by Western Union, to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Gist of Chou's remarks...
...morning for the Wall Street offices of Sullivan & Cromwell and got home late. He did devote Sundays to his family. Then, dressed in a top hat-poverty was not long with them-he paraded them to the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church near their four-story brownstone house on gist Street. Lillias remembers one Sunday when Lawyer Dulles delighted his brood and shocked his wife by putting on an act on the street balancing his top hat on his cane...
...indeed developed his own style of Red revolution-a special model for Asia. The gist: In underdeveloped countries without much industry, Communism cannot work through the industrial proletariat as it did in Russia and the West, but must win power through arming and organizing the peasants. From 1927-30, Mao fought for this concept against the orthodox type of Marxism represented by his rival Li Lisan. With specific approval of Stalin, Mao won the fight...
Conditions. While they waited, U.S. officials settled on the terms they would present if the Communists agreed to negotiate, and got them approved by all the U.N. allies. Their gist...
...Britain's House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison publicly accepted "some form of nationalization." Three days later, Mossadeq rose from a sick bed to receive U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady, who delivered a personal message from President Harry Truman.* Gist of it: "Iran's independence is absolutely essential . . . The flow of Iran's oil is absolutely essential . . ." Now that Foreign Secretary Morrison was ready to accept "the principle of nationalization," it looked as if negotiations for a settlement might begin. "I am sure," concluded Truman, "Your Excellency is aware of the possible explosive consequences...