Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Days of Ma. The story behind this news was twelve years old, a suppressed fragment of modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated...
...China with the problem their predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
...group of subversive masterminds and intellectual saboteurs banded together in a "secret society" which constitutes a national peril.* Said the Tribune, wheezing with rage: "The Rhodes Scholars, whose education was intended to promote the betrayal of the U.S., have infiltrated our Federal Government. . . . The Scholarships were created to corrupt Americans...
From exile-in France, then England, finally the U.S.-Carlo Sforza crusaded against Benito Mussolini ("a demagogue, a charlatan, a cheap egocentric, a quisling of Hitler") and Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned...
When the test of World War II came, the little people of Italy helped Allied arms destroy Fascismo. They refused to fight for a corrupt regime, to love the German ally. Their revolt, at first passive, then open, sapped Benito Mussolini's edifice, forced Badoglio to surrender...