Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942, Davies followed the line that Chiang's regime was hopelessly corrupt and doomed, that the Chinese Communists had "mass support" and were "the force destined to control China." Soldier Stilwell took the Davies position. In a 1944 memorandum, Davies wrote: "We should not now abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must make a determined effort to capture politically the Chinese Communists, rather than allow them...
...made to send U.S. forces to meet the Korean invaders. On a Sunday night, after the first shock of the invasion, the nation's highest officials met at dinner in Blair House. "I felt that Formosa entered into our security more than Korea . . . General MacArthur had prepared a memorandum on Formosa which I thought was brilliant and I [asked] General Bradley to read that memorandum . . . During dessert, maybe before the dessert plates were taken out, the Secretary of State again brought up the Korean question ... I interrupted to say that before we got into that too deeply I wanted...
...memorandum of agreement was initiated by both parties late in March before a Federal Mediator, providing for higher wages, vacations with pay, paid holidays, and a health fund. The company says this is not binding because the union did not represent a majority of the workers at that time...
...problem was to get Douglas MacArthur fired at a time when Truman's case against the general would hit the public hardest and with the least immediate counterreaction. Classified documents were dug out of files, declassified and checked. One was a Dec. 6 memorandum directing that "officials overseas, including military commanders," were to "clear all but routine statements with their departments and to refrain from direct communications on military or foreign policy with newspapers, magazines, or other publicity media." Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk hurried over from the State Department, and General Omar Bradley arrived from the Pentagon...
...results achieved by our students in bar examinations in June, 1950, were rather disappointing," the memorandum stated. Griswold added that special study is necessary before taking the exams, and that it is a mistake to take them "cold." The number of Law School graduates passing last June's exams was on the average 25 percent lower than the 80 percent national average of previous years...