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...Partial? But beyond that, and far more important, the statement was a perfect illustration of the split within the State Department over U.S. China policy. It had been drafted by State's Director of Far Eastern Affairs, quiet, soft-spoken John Carter Vincent, whose last trip to China had been in the company of Henry Wallace in 1944. As a leader of the bloc which believes U.S. policy is too partial to Chiang, Vincent had already been labeled a stooge for Yenan...
...first day of the conference, registration and speeches will take up most of the time while on the second day the delegates, expected to number about 400, will split into four groups, called panels, to work on specific issues. The third day will be spent ratifying the proposals of the panels and in electing and appointing officers and committees...
Prize Exhibits. Of the Dominions, two-Australia and New Zealand-are Socialist, like the mother country; these, along with Canada, are more closely tied to the free-enterprise U.S. than to Britain in matters affecting their national security. South Africa is strategically British, politically split by Boer nationalism, and socially ridden by extreme racism. Eire takes full advantage of its independence; its chief importance in world affairs is as a bottomless reservoir of ill-will toward its once heavy-handed master...
Thus the University has for once led the way in integrating into the common ground of one department three fields which are basically one, yet which are almost universally split among distinctly different social sciences. But this new field is not merely a conglomeration of odds and ends snipped from three other departments and all lumped together in one uncoordinated mass. To the inheritance which it received, the infant Social Relations Department has added a dozen or so entirely new courses, none of which has ever been previously offered in the University. This combination of something borrowed and something...
Last week young Henry Ford II announced that the seven-year deal was off. Neither Ford nor Ferguson gave a reason for the split. Detroit guessed that money-losing Ford had decided it was not getting enough out of the deal. Ford is setting up a new company to be headed by General Motors Vice President Frank R. Pierce to make its own tractor and a complete line of farm implements...