Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asserting that it's one thing to talk about collective security and another to "realize that it no longer exists," President Baxter of Williams last night doubted the possibility of cooperation between England and American in both Europe and the Far East...
Attacking Walter Lippmann's plea last year for cooperation between the two countries, Baxter argued that it was difficult to accept the columnist's reasoning after what has happened at Godesburg and Munich. He pointed out, likewise, the difficulty of "making joint action work in the Far East," since English interests there are in the long run secondary and public opinion in both democracies is opposed...
...train slowed up for the Charles River Station I pressed him again. "It it too Earle to say whether the Democrate are leading with their Quinn? From the Caulfields of the East to the open Miles of the West they are having a Trft fight. Farley is said to have cried 'O' Hara' when they brought him the Tydings...
Between 1923 and 1927 Malraux shuttled back & forth between Paris and the Far East, published a magazine in Saïgon, helped natives get out newspapers the Government suppressed. At 24 he was associate secretary general of the Kuomintang for Cochin-China. At 25 he was a member of the Committee of Twelve (Chiang Kai-shek was another member) which directed the Canton insurrection during the Chinese revolution, Malraux's post being propaganda commissioner for the key provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung...
...revolutionary secret agent in the Far East in 1926 was a little like a soldier who cannot be sure his allies will not go over to the enemy in the middle of battle. Malraux was no Communist, but worked with the Kuomintang in the period of the united front between the Kuomintang and the Third International. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies in 1927, and the Chinese Revolution ended in a swirl of executions, betrayals, assassinations, Malraux left China for good, accompanied an archeological expedition through Persia and Afghanistan on his way back to France. The expedition...