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...this year War Minister Leon Trotzky had built up the "Red Army" sufficiently to harass and wear down the "White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
...much love the pan-Germans, who help us, as hate the pan-Italians, who force our children to attend schools conducted only in Italian and harass us in numberless ways. The truth is that we are a 'frontier people' too weak ever to achieve the independence we would like...
...year later, she married a brilliant diplomat?John Wallace Riddle, but bad luck on the ocean continued to harass her and, a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 23), Mr. Riddle was forced to resign his post as Ambassador to Argentina because her health forbade her venturing again upon the ocean...
Everybody loves a baby, but "they surely are lots of trouble." Problems of birth rate and population perpetually harass legislators all over the world. In yesterday's news dispatches alone came indications of concern for these questions in France, Italy, and Nebraska...
...paramount interests of France in the country, he showed how successive events have made necessary each step taken by the French, and how Germany, wishing to get control of mining concessions which her merchants had obtained from the Sultan for a nominal price, did everything she could to harass the French until she should be allowed a share in the administration of the land. France accorded Germany all the commercial and economic freedom which she accorded other nations, and which the other nations were satisfied with...