Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed far-reaching changes in the Government of the Shanghai International Settlement-changes which would give the Japanese virtual control of the Settlement. Chief Japanese demands were for more voting power for the Japanese residents of the International Settlement so that more Japanese could be elected to the Municipal Council. Other demands were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands. The U. S. even suggested that the Japanese, who have governed...
RUSSIA The Congress of the Supreme Council of Soviets meets in a vast gold & marble room of the Kremlin that once held the throne of the Tsar. This week it meets again. Reorganized under the Constitution of 1936, this is its third meeting in its present form, its eleventh since its organization in 1922. If this meeting makes more news than its predecessors, it will be, not because of its deliberations, but because it is addressed by Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin...
Significant to the Soviet regime is that Stalin has chosen the Supreme Council as his sounding board. Since 1930 he has spoken often: to Communist Party Congresses, to graduates of the Red Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first...
Government. Soviets in Russia perform administrative functions roughly comparable to those of municipal councils, State legislatures, Congress, in the U. S. Originally committees formed in factories and towns when the Tsar's authority broke down, there are now 70,000 of them to whom delegates, not always Communist Party members, are elected by secret ballot in direct elections, but from candidates selected by the Communist Party. Over local Soviets are Soviets of townships, over them Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which...
...deputies to the Council of Union, elected for four-year terms on the basis of one for each 300,000 population...