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...soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang's Chief-of-Staff the ablest Bolshevik strategist, then called "General Galen," today Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Armies in the Far East under the name of General Blucher...
Asked what was his favorite dish, North Carolina's Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus replied: "The boy in me always craves ice cream...
...furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets free to Reds who lacked money. On further orders from Moscow the Soviet Consulate General at Mukden...
Leipzig sent the little man to Elba while a Congress sought to forget the last twenty five years at Vienna. And then the Hundred Days, to end at last when Old Blucher set his men to stabbing the Old Guard under the late June starlight. Not quite ended it is true, for six years later on a far isle in the sea a great storm of wind and rain blew up. And whilst it raged the Emperor died murmuring "France, Armee, Tete d'armee", and perhaps, as some say, "Josephine...
...Sword-handy Commander Blucher spoke on the 14th anniversary of the Red Army. Not only at Khabarovsk but all over Russia, militant spirits ran high. Theatres and opera houses were packed with Red soldiers and Red commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...