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Dominique Bl??¼her, Rodowick’s wife and a professor of film at the University of Rennes in France, will also join VES to teach one course a semester next year...
...presuming to guess, observers noted as significant that last week the supreme command of the Soviet forces threatening China was entrusted to a Comrade-Commander who, paradoxically, once served in the Chinese Revolution as staff adviser to Marshal (now President) Chiang Kaishek. The Comrade-Commander is Vassili Constan-tinovitch Bl??cher, onetime oiler of Tsarist locomotives, today the most important man in Asia...
During 1917-20, when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Bl??cher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Bl??cher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
...their hour of triumph the Chinese Nationalists broke with the Soviet Govern-ment (TIME, April 25, 1927) which had so largely financed their successful revolution. Comrade Bl??cher returned to Moscow. His assignment last week to command the Soviet Eastern Army, massed along China's Manchurian frontier, was a shrewd, logical stroke, well calculated to shake Chinese morale...
Events quick-stepping after Red Generalissimo Bl??cher 's prelude to battle were...