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Private Banquet In Home At Rally

Around the time of the rally, junior officers gather in a well-off home for a jovial and friendly meal. The meal is being hosted in the home of the young woman standing in a dress against the back wall in both images--as evidenced by the photo portrait of her on the wall. She is either the wife in the home, or a trusted older daughter.  In the lower image, Eugene Wozniak is seated at the far left. That he--as a foreigner--is welcome and invited to this kind of intimate event is a testament not only of the g
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Around the time of the rally, junior officers gather in a comfortable home for a jovial and friendly meal. The meal is being hosted in the home of the young woman standing in a dress against the back wall in both images--as evidenced by the photo portrait of her on the wall. She is either the wife in the home, or a trusted older daughter.

In the lower image, Eugene Wozniak is seated at the far left. That he--as a foreigner--is welcome and invited to this kind of intimate event is a testament not only of the graciousness of the Chinese people he worked with, but also to own his friendliness, flexibility, and efforts to reach across cultural boundaries. Wozniak is not a unfamiliar intruder however, as at least one image that he has taken is thumb-tacked on the wall in house, showing that he has an established relationship of some kind.

The person immediately to the left of Wozniak is an interpretation or translation officer--someone assigned to help key Americans negotiate linguistic and cultural needs in the CBI. His dark colored uniform is neither a Chinese soldier's or officer's uniform, nor an average military American uniform. This style of uniform can be better seen here.

 

One of the images, a soldier surnamed Li (李) and a small child, that is posted on the wall of the house, also in the Wozniak collection.
One of the images, a soldier surnamed Li (李) and a small child, that can be seen posted on the wall of the house (above), also in the Wozniak collection.
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