Word: liaisons
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...liaison officer between the extreme Right and the extreme Left...
After six weeks, Mao flew hurriedly back to Yenan. Communist bigwig Chou Enlai, in charge of Yenan's public relations, remained in the big city as liaison officer until negotiations broke down. Chou is the smoothest, most urbane of the Communist leaders; in school he was famous for his female impersonations in theatricals, his most brilliant role being that of a sexy peasant wench in a play called One Dollar...
Other points included: establishment of a "liaison" office responsible for "military and political affairs during a period of transition"; continued operation of "utilities, banks, warehouses and schools"; continuation of postal and telegraphic service with the outside world. Nationalist transport planes continued to evacuate military men and Kuomintang secret service operatives...
...dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without faith in themselves, came timidly to the American authorities to ask advice. They got the minimum. "Form a liaison group," said SCAP's scientific division, "so we can talk intelligently...
...first, Acheson was concerned mostly with economic affairs and liaison with Congress, where he was well liked. Later, he got deeper into policy. During the war and immediately after it, Acheson favored "sympathetic understanding" of the Russians. It was a policy opposed by another Assistant Secretary, Adolf A. Berle Jr., but Acheson at the time was right in step with top State Department bigwigs, with Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Truman and a great many other Americans. One of Acheson's advisers was the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, Alger Hiss (brother Donald once was Acheson...