Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai's powerful city council-addressing the Communists as "gentlemen" instead of "bandits"-radioed its peace appeal direct to Red headquarters at Yenan. Peiping and Tientsin, completely isolated by Red armies, followed suit. The press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
...propaganda, Lysenkoism is promising. The so-called backward peoples of the world, to whom Communists are making an intense appeal, may like the suggestion that a better environment (provided, of course, by Communism) can turn their children, in one generation's time, into superiors of the strutting white men who have ruled them for centuries past...
...Break. Three weeks after U.S.A. was hailed by the fellow-traveling League of American Writers in 1937, Dos Passes lost his appeal for Communists when he attacked "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy." He began a new series of novels that were to be as full of the liberal's soul-searching doubts as U.S.A. had been of the radical's passionate certainties...
Other Japanese saw darker reasons for the U.S. action. Last week Tokyo was rife with baseless rumors that the war criminals were being saved because the U.S. wanted their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...Times was scared; it had a sick child on its hands. For the first few days of its life, the highly ballyhooed Mirror had run off 500,000 copies a day. But as its curiosity appeal wore off, circulation had plummeted below the 100,000 guaranteed to advertisers. Last week the Mirror even refused to tell the admen how much circulation they were buying. Estimates were somewhere between...