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Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
...Fish may now by frozen stiff at a temperature of -20 degrees centigrade, left in that condition for several hours, and then brought back to life as spry as ever by a little warm water," declares Dr. Nicholai Borodin, curater of fishes at the Peabody Museum. When the fish is frozen, it goes into a state which corresponds very much to that of an animal's hibernation, except that the fish at this time does not breathe at all, but is kept alive by some unknown vital force. How long the fish can be kept alive in a frozen state...
...Later, because you understood one word of Chinese yet were utterly incapable of reading the language, you became a convenient trumpet for your Russian master, Borodin, who had you appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs [in 1926]. When Borodin was exiled you followed to Moscow...
...because of belief among the ignorant Canton rebels that Chen's voice carried Chen's thoughts, not merely Borodin's echo, as it really was, they take you back although you remain in the pay of the Soviets...
...Chen is the master propagandist of China. A fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...