Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What must be called Communism for want of a better word is the most serious problem in China proper today, a growing tumor that gaunt ex-President Chiang, now Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, must solve if the Nationalist Government is to last. Three months ago the Shanghai China Forum, radical weekly, made a survey, announced that Chinese Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze. They have eight major armies totalling 151,000 well-drilled men, of whom over half are equipped with rifles. Week by week the Communists creep in a constricting ring...
...Soviet Russia, whether their principles are understood by their followers, they have devised a system that works marvellously well in such landlord ridden provinces as Kiangsi and Hupeh. Last year it cost $45,000,000 to fight them. Most of the Nationalists were cool to the idea of battling Communism, notably Finance Minister T. V. Soong who resigned because he believed it a waste of money. His return this year was taken to indicate an easing...
...Communism and its creed of violent revolution Nominee Thomas has only bitter words, due perhaps to the fact tha't recurrent Red scares have driven a confused electorate back from Socialism to hard-boiled reaction. Peaceful methods are paramount in the Thomas program. Says...
...jobless "army" last winter (TIME, Jan. 18) and is candidate for President of the U. S. on a "Liberty" or "Jobless" party ticket. Father Cox talks loudly of taking over all U. S. wealth, all U. S. banks, providing public works to end unemployment. "Either my party or Communism!" shouts round-faced Father...
...States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway what one of Author Priestley's seafaring men might call a "scrumdoolious" chronicle, even more higgledy-piggledy than the study which is still waiting for William Dursley after 450 pages of cozy adventuring...