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...Borodin. By this intemperate rampage the students greatly vexed that rugged, cautious, middle-aged Soviet Russian adviser to the South China Government, Michael Markovitch Borodin (TIME, Dec. 13). Though Adviser Borodin is a Communist and an atheist he quenches misguided, half-baked attempts to spread these doctrines...
General Michael Borodin, the Russian field adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled the brilliant and astute Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin. M. Borodin has been the intermediary between Moscow and Canton since before the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen. One of his few false moves was to keep the Cantonese waiting for weeks while a ceremonial coffin was being brought from Moscow for the dead Dr. Sun. When it eame...
...crux of Chiang's "Bolshevism." It is rather pan-Chinese patriotism. As he walks among his soldiers they cry: "China for the Chinese!" Amid the present 15-year-old Chinese anarchy, Chiang Kai-shek is at tempting to create a strong Chinese government and has employed Michael Borodin and everyone else who would aid him. A Cantonese Government of all China would undoubtedly be laid out on modified principles of Communism. If stable, such a government would be preferred even by the Conservatives in Downing Street to another 15 years of Chinese anarchy, as the best of many evils...
...fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...