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...halt to the Chinese Reds' long-distance shakedown. During the past year the Communists have bled millions of dollars from Chinese-Americans with relatives imprisoned in China. The payments benefited the Communists, but not their victims. Some were executed while relatives in the U.S. were still signing ransom checks...
...more futile payments, the Treasury Department is now enforcing a 1950 regulation under the Trading with the Enemy Act, which makes remittances to Red China illegal. After this anyone who sends ransom money to the Communists is liable to a $10,000 fine and ten years in prison...
...intentions" and held them. Hungary ignored two State Department notes demanding the release of the flyers and the plane. Apparently the next step is blackmail: within a day or two of the plane's landing, Hungary blandly sent word that it is now dissatisfied with the multimillion-dollar ransom which the U.S. paid to Hungary to free Businessman Robert Vogeler...
Short pieces by John Crowe Ransom, Pierre Emmanuel, and Carvel Collins present a scattering of interesting comments and opinions. Unfortunately, a complex and timely argument on "The Responsibility of the Artist" by Archibald MacLeish is marred by the omission of several lines of type at a crucial point...
Iannelli, and teammate Bob Ransom, both received minor letters for 1950-'51 last October 23rd, when the H.A.A. ruled polo a minor sport. The third letterman was Tom Calhoun, now dissociated from polo, and president of the Rugby Club...