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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...appeased. He struck on Oct. 26, and when the U.N., the U.S. and the British tried further appeasement, Mao flung back taunts and prepared for his great effort...
...tearing down Chiang Kaishek. Few of the U.S. China traders ever had any drive toward imperialism or any sense of the real nonimperialist meaning of the Open Door policy, as explained by the late Henry Cabot Lodge. Said he, prophetically: "We only ask that we be admitted to this great market [China] upon the same terms as the rest of the world. But within a few years, we have seen Russia closing in upon the Chinese empire. If she succeeds, we will not only be excluded from these markets, but we shall stand face to face with a power controlling...
...Globo the evening Brazil heard about the new war in Korea. In Santiago, the dollar sagged from 109 to 81 pesos in brisk free-market trading. Crowds gathered quickly to read news bulletins in Mexico City's Bucareli Street, radio stations increased their newscasts. "The measures which the great nations now take," said Bogota's El Tiempo, "will affect all of us. We enter into a grave period...
Reported TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs: "Bao Dai has great intelligence and charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought...
...wooden earrings, stood before Mereiles, addressed him as "Imuman Uazassé" (Patient Father). Gravely, his men handed out gifts of bows & arrows, received in return knives, axes, aluminum pots. A rousing sport carnival followed. Then Apoena gave a banquet during which everybody ate roast deer and grasshoppers from great earthen jars...