THE CABINET: Marco Polo's Return

An able, chunky, cheerful public servant who had not been home for ten years and had traveled half way around the world to get there arrived in Washington last week. He was Ambassador Nelson Trusler Johnson, 51, who has represented the U. S. in China for 30 years, with interludes at the State Department in Washington. As he gave Secretary Hull his realistic opinions on the trend of the war in China (see p. 15), this modern Marco Polo's return was marked by small but cumulative developments in the U. S. attitude...

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