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Pro-Red China Editor Returns to United States
John W. Powell American publisher of an English language magazine in Shanghai until last June arrived in Hong Kong with his wife and two children en route to the United States. He declined interviews and said he would seek an exit permit before boarding the President Wilson bound for San Francisco. Powell, about 34, is the son of John B. Powell once editor of the China Weekly Review. The elder Powell died in 1947 after being imprisoned by the Japanese. Powell revived the Review in Shanghai and under his editorship it leaned far left and pro Communist after the city fell. He refused further comment at the hotel and joked he might write if reporters want information. His family appeared well though Powell looked tired. The Review ceased publication last June amid financial troubles and circulation declines blamed on U.S. attitudes.