Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have not only side problems to keep out of the picture* but a mixed group of interests to contend with: Chile and several other nations whose political sympathies are with Fascism; Mexico whose sympathies are with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice...
...leaders of the American Federation of Labor are no hotheads. Last week at their convention in Tampa they resolved against "Communism, Fascism and Naziism" but refused to express sympathy for Spain's embattled workers. They registered protest against Yale University for ousting a pinko Divinity professor but declined to boycott the publications of William Randolph Hearst. They stamped approval on a scheme for Federal licensing of industry to regulate wages & hours, but brushed aside the question of a Constitutional Amendment to make it possible. They plumped for the 30-hour week but shied away from talk of curbing...
...conservatism that they represent. If they propose to suppress all organizations that do not receive their paternal blessing, they have no right to call themselves defenders of liberty. The opponents of radical doctrines would make much greater headway if they would devote their energy towards making intellectual arguments against communism, rather than snooping on a few college liberals...
...into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified...
...students going after that time must pay a fine. Otherwise a man's room is his castle and, in all seriousness, many invaluable teas and conversations are encouraged this way. The girl's chief worry seems to be that someone will take her wheel for there's a definite communism of bicycles here at Oxford...