Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ports, bomb Manchurian supply centers, supply and encourage Chiang Kai-shek and anti-Communist guerrillas on China's mainland. The British were against any such "limited war." They doubted that it was possible to limit war, and believed that most of their friends in the U.N. supported this view...
...many Americans labeled appeasement, no matter what protestations the communiqué made. The U.S. insisted that it would not be blackmailed by Mao into sacrificing Chiang Kai-shek for what it was sure could only be a temporary peace in the Far East. Attlee reluctantly accepted this point of view...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...
...Canadian policy was set forth in a more direct and specific form than the British position. As stated by External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson, and discussed privately by Ottawa officials, Canada's view ef the situation added up to this...
...terms, no arrest may be made or judgment executed in a specific case until the court issuing the amparo has had a chance to review the case and decide whether the agency involved is acting within the law. Its great advantage from the lawbreaker's point of view is that the huge backlog of amparo cases virtually guarantees a three-to four-month delay before a hearing. When the time is nearly up, the shady character can find another judge and get another amparo...